Ukrainian army is testing new APCs with the purpose of ordering the vehicles, spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council Volodymyr Chepovy has said.

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces will conduct comparative tests of BTR-3E1s and BTR-4Bs [Butsefal] to select the most suitable APC for the Armed Forces," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.

He said that around 1,000 APCs would be bought.

Chepovy said that the issue of buying Dozor B lightly armored APCs is being discussed.