Three radars purchased during the Radarom fundraising campaign have already left for Ukraine, while the remaining 13 radars have reached Lithuania and are being prepared for transport, the Blue/Yellow organisation said on Monday.
“We received the first radars back in March, and the rest of the shipment arrived in stages. We have sent three radars to Ukraine. Now that we have all the others, we are preparing them for shipment to Ukraine. We are moving at a good pace and much of the work has been finished,” Jonas Ohman, the head of the organisation, is quoted in a statement.
Ohman stressed that the radars are large, special-purpose devices, which are not easy to transfer and requires coordination of documents, permits and logistics.
The procedures for acquiring and sending 12 regular fixed radars and four mobile radars for special tasks took about a month.
“Thanks to our civil society’s activism in assisting Ukraine, Lithuania has already managed to earn a special reputation internationally of the defence industry, where much more serious players are operating. In some cases, the mere mention of Lithuania's name makes the screws turn faster,” Ohman noted.
The radars purchased during the campaign were used by the Ukrainians in a training session in Kaunas in March.
The Radarom! fundraising campaign, co-organised by LRT, ran from the end of January until February 24. It raised 14 million euros.
