Posted on 09/04/2022 5:38:28 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The UK is significantly expanding a training programme in Britain to turn potentially tens of thousands of Ukrainian recruits into frontline soldiers to fight Russia, Sky News has learnt.
The combat course is being extended in length to five weeks from three weeks, keeping more of the training in the UK, away from the threat of Russian missile strikes - a hazard for anyone learning how to become a soldier at sites inside Ukraine, it is understood.
Some 4,700 personnel have already been through the training at military bases in the north, southwest and southeast of England since it began in June, with commanders intending to continue the support for as long as Ukraine needs new troops to fight Russia's invasion.
Military instructors from eight other countries, including New Zealand, Sweden and the Netherlands, have joined with their British counterparts to provide the expanded training mission.
Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, said it demonstrated "our shared resolve to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine".
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NATO cannon fodder.
Just trying to kill them all. This is shameful.
Citizens soldiers????
There is a draft of every man and woman 18-60.
Yep!....They have no shame putting these folks in front of a seasoned experienced Russian machine. Six weeks training! Disgusting!
.....to the last Ukrainian.
Wooo-Hoo! 4,700 troops trained when that many Ukes die in a week. That will turn the war around! I hope the cannon fodder are getting the necessary transgender acceptance training or they could somehow offend Russia transvestite troops.
Reminds me of how retailers “train” employees for three days, if they’re lucky, during Christmas Season and then throw them to the wolfs! They generally don’t last more than a couple weeks.
This should make retaking Kherson so easy!
Victory Ukraine! /s
It’s all optics to perpetuate the money flow from the US…
The continued slaughter of Uke infantry is a war crime committed by Joe Biden. The US and Western countries needs to end this.
This war would never have happened if Trump was President.
Bounding towards WW3…just like the 2019 Rand Corporation report laid out…
Like these dudes?
A photo apparently showing Russian troops stranded in an elevator is going viral
During the Vietnam war Basic Training was 8 weeks long and in 1972, in the 9th Infantry Division, we were taking troops straight from Basic and training them ourselves, skipping AIT.
Five weeks of sophisticated no-nonsense training and then being sent to their unit to learn the rest of what they need as defensive soldiers, is not the worse it gets in wars.
A Genius for Training Baron von Steuben and the Training of the Continental Army
Ukraine is taking training and the long view of the war seriously. Russia is not.
Elevator Music - 1 hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBlFHuCzPgY
The continued slaughter of Uke infantry is a war crime committed by Joe Biden. The US and Western countries needs to end this.
Of course. We must delegitimize the right of a people to defend themselves against an invading horde of mass murdering vermin.
I personally am skeptical of the quality of most Russian troops as well, but in any case, these troops being trained in Britain don’t have to be your front line assault troops. You use them to occupy other areas of the front to free up higher quality troops for the assault. That’s the exact same logic the Russians are using when they bring on much older recruits.
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