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  • Ukraine war: UK programme to train 'citizen soldiers' is expanding

    09/04/2022 5:38:28 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 81 replies
    Sky News.com ^ | September 5, 2022 | Deborah Haynes
    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...