The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has handed three mobile laboratories for express bacteriological tests to the sanitary and epidemiological service of Ukraine's Defense Ministry.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that the vehicles were officially passed to the ministry on September 29 in Kyiv.

Head of the evacuation department of the military and medical department of Defense Ministry Oleksiy Barbaziuk said that the vehicles will be registered in Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv. After tests they will be sent to the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone.

"The vehicles will be sent to the east of Ukraine in three or four months after we confirm that they can operate in the field. The rotation of the vehicles will be used: two in the ATO zone and one on the rotation," he said.

Barbaziuk said that the specialists to work with the vehicles have been trained. The cost of the three vehicles is UAH 13 million. The U.S. Embassy paid for them.