Patrick Ryder: US specialists have trained more than 7 thousand Ukrainian military
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Since the beginning of full-scale hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, specialists from the United States have trained more than 7,000 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, CNN reports citing Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder.
This week, 65 Ukrainians trained to use Patriot air defense systems at Fort Sill, Oklahoma returned to Europe after completing their studies, he said.
Ryder also announced that more than 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers will undergo combined arms training in Germany later this month, including two brigades, one of which is equipped with Bradley combat vehicles and the other with Stryker vehicles.
“Additional combined-arms training continues at the Grafenwöhr and Hohenfels training grounds in Germany with the participation of two motorized infantry battalions of 1,200 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Ryder said.
On March 27, the Armed Forces of Ukraine completed training on Challenger 2 tanks in Britain. The process of training and approval of new units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine takes at least two months, as Serhiy Savchenko, Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, notes in his article “11 months of war: the struggle for a strategic initiative continues.”
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