The vehicle fleet of the Kharkiv garrison of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has been replenished with trucks from the Netherlands, provided by BASWorld (Netherlands) and RENEVINEDERLAND B.V. (Netherlands). The supply of critical equipment for the rescuers was organised by Kharkiv-based Agroinvest Holding Starovirovka.
“Since February 2022, Kharkiv and Kharkiv region have been at the epicentre of hostilities. We have seen with our own eyes the daily heroic work of the Kharkiv units of the State Emergency Service. We decided to help as much as we could,” said CEO of Agroinvest Holding Starovirovka, about the assistance to the SES garrison.
In April 2022 Ilya Kalugin, Transport Director of Agroinvest Holding Starovirovka, began organisation the supply of equipment from Europe for Kharkiv firefighters. Most of the negotiations were unsuccessful.
When Ilya Kalugin turned to BAS World in the Netherlands, he found out that the manager there was a Ukrainian, a native of Khmelnytsky Oblast, Oleksandr Rudak. He arranged a meeting with representatives of the Dutch branch of Renevi (RENEVI NEDERLAND B.V.), and after a while they agreed to help.
After many approvals and checks that lasted 4 months, the Dutch handed over a Ziegler Komodo fire truck worth about 100,000 euros and 6 container trucks made by DAF, MAN and Scania to Kharkiv.
A lot of paperwork had to be collected in order for Renevi to donate the vehicles to the Kharkiv Oblast State Emergency Service.
Agroinvest Holding Starovirovka is grateful for the cooperation of Oleksandr Volobuev, Head of the Kharkiv Oblast State Emergency Service, who promptly responded to all requests and provided all the papers in a timely manner, and the Governor of Kharkiv Oblast, Oleg Sinegubov, for timely permits to pick up the vehicles.
We are also grateful to Marc Den Hartog, CEO of RENEVI NEDERLAND B.V., for his help to Kharkiv and Ukraine!
