For the first time since the start of a full-scale war with Russia, a special unit of the British Armed Forces has been training Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv on how to use Britain’s NLAW anti-tank missile systems.
Source: The Armed Forces of Ukraine
Officers from two battalions stationed in and around the capital said they had undergone military training from serving British special forces, one last week and the other the week before.
Captain Yuriy Myronenko, whose battalion is stationed in Obolon on the northern outskirts of Kyiv, said that military trainers had come to instruct new and returning military recruits to use NLAWs, British-supplied anti-tank missiles that were delivered in February as the invasion was beginning.
“They were good guys. They have invited us to visit them when the war is over,” the commander, nicknamed “Bear”, said.
British military trainers were first sent to Ukraine after the invasion of Crimea in 2014.
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