Netherlands to supply Ukraine with a thousand chargers for remote demining

FILE PHOTO: A demining device, mounted on an excavator and capable of detonating anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, is tested, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 12, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) - The Netherlands will send Ukraine a thousand chargers for remote demining, Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on a visit to Kyiv.

The announcement coincides with heavily mined Russian defence lines slowing down a Ukrainian counteroffensive to recapture territory seized by Russia since its forces invaded in February 2022.