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Ukraine war: UK programme to train 'citizen soldiers' is expanding
Sky News.com ^ | September 5, 2022 | Deborah Haynes

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".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


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To: ansel12

LOL! Good one!


21 posted on 09/04/2022 5:59:48 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

I think the term is “Volksturm”.

A civilians with three weeks of training. It’s murder to throw some bunch like that into a war with the Russian army.
You wouldn’t see Z throw his wife into that kind of rabble.


22 posted on 09/04/2022 6:00:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

The Brits are training the future trainers, like Von Steuben did at Valley Forge.


23 posted on 09/04/2022 6:00:48 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Yep. It is now just a matter of when.


24 posted on 09/04/2022 6:01:15 PM PDT by sport
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To: Timber Rattler
'We Don't Have An Army': Russian Father Volunteers After His Son Killed In Ukraine, But Returns Disillusioned
25 posted on 09/04/2022 6:03:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: PGR88

Small flags displayed for each soldier who's died In Kiev Square


26 posted on 09/04/2022 6:04:18 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

“...seasoned experienced Russian machine.”

If they had one, it wouldn’t still be fighting to get out of the Crimea.


27 posted on 09/04/2022 6:05:52 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: caww

Oh that’s one of those photos. All I could see was a babe’s beautiful leg. But if you look at it long enough, you can see a bunch of Uke flags. Cool...


28 posted on 09/04/2022 6:07:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I’ve noticed the Ukrainian KIA come from all segments of their society. You have intellectuals, educated city folk and villagers. There is nothing similar on the Russian side. It’s poor ethnic minorities, mercs, prisoners, bus station drunks, etc. The male population of the occupied territories is being press gang conscripted by Russia and wiped out. I’m sure Putin considers that a bonus, too.


29 posted on 09/04/2022 6:07:49 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Timber Rattler

Citizen soldiers become citizen military targets


30 posted on 09/04/2022 6:11:37 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wow! What a series of truth bombs from that grieving father, who has to live with the knowledge that he was the one who encouraged his son to join the rotten Russian Army, only to get killed on the third day of the war!


31 posted on 09/04/2022 6:11:38 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: PLMerite

WHo says they are?


32 posted on 09/04/2022 6:14:20 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: DesertRhino

Well the point was Biden will sacrifice Ukrainians. No skin off his nose.


33 posted on 09/04/2022 6:15:28 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: silverleaf
So you have a problem with the idea of "citizen soldiers?"


34 posted on 09/04/2022 6:16:19 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

Putin had eight years to plan and launch his failing invasion at a time and place of his choosing.


35 posted on 09/04/2022 6:20:00 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: caww

Putin will fight to the last Buryat. No skin off his nose.


36 posted on 09/04/2022 6:22:53 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Timber Rattler

Look up Baron Friedrich Von Steuben and how he trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
A Genius for Training Baron von Steuben and the Training of the Continental Army

The continental army didn’t face cruise missile strikes on its troops and it was also smart enough, thru gen. Washington, to avoid major engagements with the British; basically employing strategies of asymmetrical warfare.


37 posted on 09/04/2022 6:47:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Flick Lives
The continental army didn’t face cruise missile strikes on its troops and it was also smart enough, thru gen. Washington, to avoid major engagements with the British; basically employing strategies of asymmetrical warfare.

You obviously don't know much about the Revolutionary War, do you, Comrade Flick?

1) The Citizen Soldiers of Washington's Army had to face the bayonets of the mighty British war machine, and generally broke and fled before Von Steuben arrived and trained them to stand toe to toe with the Red Coat Regulars;

2) It's a myth that Washington avoided major engagements with the British. If so, then there would have been no battles of Long Island and Manhattan, Trenton and Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown, and finally Yorktown, with a bunch of smaller engagements in between (like Bennington and Stony Point). And then there were the battles fought by his peers and subordinates like Saratoga (Gates and Arnold), Cowpens (Morgan), and Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs (Greene).

38 posted on 09/04/2022 6:58:43 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

US Army basic training = 10 weeks.

UK, etc. doing nothing more than training Ukrainian cannon fodder.


39 posted on 09/04/2022 7:14:17 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler

You obviously don’t know much about the Revolutionary War, do you, Comrade Flick?

More then you, globalist lackey. ( just returning the insult.)

The fighting style of the colonists was to not engage British troops in lined formations. They preferred to be “ungentlemanly” and would instead take opportune attacks, hiding behind trees, etc.

Washington technically “lost” most engagements, but he preserved his forces and kept engaging in skirmishes. If he had ever attempted a massive battle, it would have played into the strength of the British.

Much the same guerrilla tactics were employed by Queen Boudica against the superior Roman army. Her failure came when she launched a single large battle against the Romans.


40 posted on 09/04/2022 7:20:05 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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