Allies of Kiev accelerate the training of Ukrainian soldiers

This is one of the keys to war. Although the front has been frozen for months in Ukraine, where fighting is now mostly concentrated in the Donbass, especially in the towns of Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Vohledar, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Western allies are stepping up training. Kievan troops to allow them to resume their offensive in the spring and summer when the weather once again becomes favorable for maneuvers.

Long behind its European neighbors, Paris recently sent 150 French army instructor soldiers to an unnamed location in Poland. Their mission: to train up to 600 Ukrainian soldiers, the equivalent of a battalion, in basic combat equipment every month. The training will begin in April and will initially train 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers in ground combat.We will explain the Ministry of Armed Forces.

France also plans to increase aid in training in the use of Western equipment. Since the beginning of the conflict, about 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been sent to France to learn how to use the equipment supplied to the Kiev army: Caesar rifles, AMX-10 RC armored vehicles, ground-air defense batteries Rattlesnakes, rockets. Launcher… There has also been a major effort to allow Ukrainians to do what the military calls maintenance and repair of equipment themselves. “Save in operational state” (MCO).

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These efforts will continue. “By the summer, an additional thousand Ukrainian soldiers will be trained in the use of French-supplied equipment and in the MCO.”, we will discuss in detail in the Ministry of Armed Forces, which should increase their number to 2000 since the beginning of the Russian invasion. The most recent example is that a group of Ukrainians recently completed training on the SAMP/T Mamba air defense system. Including battery delivery in May jointly by Paris and Rome. This training took place in France and Italy “in just a few weeks”instead of the usually required ten months.

The ability of Ukrainian soldiers to appropriate Western equipment has been highlighted in Western capitals. Across the Atlantic, 65 of them will complete training in a few days to master the Patriot missile defense system, the first batteries of which are expected in Ukraine in the coming weeks. US soldiers were quoted by online media as saying on Tuesday politicsTen weeks was enough for them to know how to use the Patriot system on their own, while initial estimates suggested up to a year of learning.