 Russian military receives Chinese armoured vehicles. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's Chechnya region, has confirmed that the Russian military has received the first batch of Chinese-made armoured vehicles according to defence blog Media Outlet. Kadyrov has released footage showing new vehicles purchased for Chechen units participating in the war in Ukraine. The new vehicle is a Tiger 4x4 armoured vehicle personnel carrier developed by the Chinese defence company Shanxi Baojie Special Vehicles Manufacturing. We have purchased more than a thousand items of military equipment for our soldiers, including 128 items of armoured vehicles since the beginning of the war. Chechen government officials said the Tiger armoured vehicle has a crew of two which consists of the commander and driver and can carry nine fully equipped infantry men. The Tiger can be adapted for various roles such as patrol, police vehicle, ambulance, command post and weapons carrier. Since its introduction at the 2012 Euro-Satary Exhibition, the Tiger has been sold to several militaries including those of the Bahamas, Bolivia, Somalia and Tajikistan. Chinese-made military equipment entered service with Russian units for the first time. It is created on the basis of an off-road truck thanks to which it has high mobility in off-road conditions. The vehicle provides protection against 7.62mm bullets.