KIEV, Jan. 27 - The Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau, the executor of a contract to supply new Ukrainian BTR-4 armored personnel carriers (APCs) to Iraq has not received official claims of the Iraqi consumer to the armored vehicles made under the contract, including a batch of 40 APCs that was returned to Ukraine after an eight-month idle period the Persian Gulf, Deputy Morozov Bureau Director Yuriy Volchenko said.

State enterprise Ukrspecexport has not commented on the media reports that the third batch of BTR-4 was returned to Ukraine due to the Defense Ministry of Iraq not accepting it.