Sweden joins the Ukrainian military training program
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Sweden will join the British training program for Ukrainian military personnel, the country's government has decided to send Swedish military instructors to the UK. This is stated in a press release from the government office.
The "breakthrough" program of the British army for training Ukrainian military personnel is gaining ground, New Zealand, Canadian and now Swedish instructors have joined the British instructors. According to published information, the Swedish Armed Forces will send 120 military instructors to the territory of the United Kingdom, who will be engaged in basic military training for future Ukrainian military. At least that's what they said in Stockholm.
(...) The initiative to offer basic military training to Ukrainian citizens comes from the UK, which has invited other countries in the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) as well as Canada to contribute (...) Sweden will facilitate the training of Ukrainian soldiers
- said in a statement.
The Swedish instructors will start arriving in the UK by 12 August and will stay there until 31 December this year. 120 Swedish military will be divided into two groups of 60 people, who will change each other. The Ukrainian military training program itself will take place in several stages, in total 10 citizens of Ukraine must go through it.
Earlier, Canada announced that they would join the Ukrainian Armed Forces training program, Canadian instructors also went to the UK, which is becoming the main training ground for the Ukrainian army outside the territory of Ukraine.
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