Embarrassing footage has emerged of a military vehicle delivered to the Ukraine from Britain seemingly incapable of driving up and over a small hill . The all-terrain Saxon could be seen trying and failing to get up and over a mound of earth in the war-torn country while a Russian-made amphibious patrol car completed the same task untroubled . About 20 of the troop carriers were sent to the Ukrainian government by a private company under a 2013 deal which predated the current conflict . Scroll down for video . Struggling : Footage has emerged of an all-terrain Saxon , sent to the Ukraine from Britain , trying and failing to drive over a small mound of earth . About 20 of the troop carriers were sent to the Ukrainian government by a private company under a 2013 deal which predated the current conflict . Last month , the former head of the British Army , General Sir Richard Dannatt slammed the decision to send dozens of the redundant British vehicles to the Ukraine claiming they were 'useless ' . He said in an interview : 'They are quite useless , semi-armoured lorries that should be nowhere near anyone 's front line . 'To suggest that the UK is making a significant gesture of support by supplying vehicles which we took out of service ten years ago , because we deemed them unsafe , seems bizarre at best and downright dangerous at worst . ' First built in the late 1970s , Saxons were intended to be a cheap and efficient option for units making long journeys . The Saxon , pictured right next to a a Russian-made amphibious patrol car , has been described by General Sir Richard Dannatt as 'quite useless ' Up and over : A Russian-made amphibious patrol car was seen completing the same task untroubled . The first operational Saxons were sent to Germany in 1983 where they were used as troop transporters . The first operational Saxons were sent to Germany in 1983 where they were used as troop transporters . They were taken out of service 10-years-ago . In February , a Ministry of Defence spokesman told the Daily Telegraph that the sale was organised through the Disposal Services authority and the vehicles were provided unarmed . A spokesman from the British Ministry of Defence added that 20 had so far been delivered to Ukraine by a private company and a further 55 were still waiting to be delivered as part of a commercial arms deal . One of Poland 's top politicians has called for a permanent US military presence on his country 's soil . The nation 's defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak said Poland hoped to welcome more than 10,000 'allied armed forces ' troops to take part in military exercise in 2015 . Uatoday , reports that this comes after the US Army deployed a Patriot missile defense battery near Warsaw . US Ambassador to Poland Stephen Mull ( left ) and Tomasz Siemoniak ( centre ) , Polish Minister of Defence , take part in the short briefing at an air and missile Patriot battery installation site . The battery arrived in Poland along with 100 US soliders and about 30 vehicles . Stephen Mull , US Ambassador to Poland is reported as saying : 'Today we demonstrate the United States ability to quickly deploy the Patriot missiles in Poland in case of necessity . 'We are here to show our Polish allies that American security guarantees for Poland within NATO mean much more than words on the paper . ' Licences for the sale were granted by an expert division within the Department for Business , Innovation and Skills . Last week images emerged showing a Saxon after it crashed on a motorway , killing the driver . The Saxon had been on a training exercises on a highway linking the Ukrainian capital Kiev to the city of Kharkiv in the east when the driver lost control , and flipped over . A Ukrainian military spokesman said : 'The soldiers being transported were unharmed but the driver was killed . 'We are carrying out an investigation to determine whether this was the fault of the driver or of the vehicle . '
Footage emerges of an all-terrain British Army struggling to get over a small hill . About 20 of the troop carriers have been sent from Britain to the Ukraine . Armoured vehicles delivered by private company under trade deal in 2013 . Former head of Saxon has described the vehicles as 'quite useless '