Ukraine's volunteer troops sharpen battlefield skills in UK

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The war drills are in a setting that resembles urban warfare and the kind of conflict raging in Ukraine since Russia's invasion last year...

The training programme has now been extended with the aim of training up to 20,000 troops in 2023..

Igor is part of a group of freshly recruited Ukrainian troops getting trained on the outskirts of Ashford town, about 100 km southeast of London..

I am currently undergoing basic military training in Great that will be useful in liberating Ukraine from the enemy, Igor told India Today...

Since June last year, soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, over 10,000 Ukrainian troops have been trained in the UK..

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