Ukrainian soldiers arrive in UK for training with British forces

Summary

This article by Anna MacSwan, writing for The Guardian, makes the following points:

• Up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers will arrive in the UK for specialist military training lasting several weeks.
• Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, described the programme as the next phase of Britain’s support to the Ukrainian army.
• The training will give volunteer recruits with little or no military experience the skills to be effective in frontline combat.
• The training is based on the UK’s basic soldier training course.
• Ukraine is losing up to 200 soldiers daily, meaning that training reinforcements away from the threat of Russian attacks is critical to the country’s war effort.

References

• THE 2022 RUSSO-UKRAINE CONFLICT | The Runway (govcms.gov.au)
• TRAINING AND EDUCATION (Military Focus) COLLECTION | The Runway (airforce.gov.au)
• JUL 2022 British forces train Ukrainian soldiers for their fight against Putin's war-machine—Daily Mail
• JUL 2022  Russia-Ukraine war: UK training programme gets under way—BBC  

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