KYIV, Aug 27 – Ukraine may directly buy Finnish armored protection steel to improve its BTR-4 armored personnel carriers that have suffered from poor armor, the Defense Ministry said.

As deputy chief of the directorate of the military representative offices of Defense Ministry Dmytro Kolesnyk said so far none of the contracted 45 armored hulls of the BTR-4s has been assembled so far.

According to him, only 30 steel sheets among 40 sheets are with special marking today.