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42 modernized armored personnel carriers have been purchased for Ukraine's law enforcement agencies, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

“We have purchased a total of 42 armored personnel carriers for Ukrainian security and defense needs,” he said at a cabinet session in Kharkiv on May 7.

4 of these new vehicles have already been transferred to one of the units involved in the anti-terrorist operation near the city of Sloviansk, Yatseniuk said.