The vehicles are produced by the company Praktika, which specialized in
Safes as well as bulletproof glass. The first Kozak vehicle (also known as Kozak-1) first appeared on August 24, 2009 at the
Independence Day of Ukraine military parade in
Kyiv. Only two vehicles were manufactured prior to March 2014. The third vehicle (also known as "Kozak-2014") was built in November 2014 and was intended to be a proof of concept to address a growing requirement for a mobile
MRAP. In March 2015 the vehicle was armed with the
NSV machine gun. Another variant, the Kozak-2, was built in 2015 and armed with an
anti-tank guided missile system. It appeared at the
169th Training Centre in May 2015. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry conducted comparative tests of 11 armored vehicles from various manufacturers in early 2016, but only three of them, including the Kozak-2, passed the state tests, the Ministry said. The trials of the Kozak-2M1, an improved tactical version of the Kozak-2, continued from October 2018 to July 2019, during which time the vehicle was tested with over 50 techniques and in a simulated combat environment. The Defense Minister of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak on March 21, 2017 signed a decree officially adopting the "Kozak-2” into service. In April 2025, Spanish company Tecnove signed announced the licensed production of Kozak and
Dzhura armored personal vehicles in the town of
Herencia, La Mancha. ==Variants==