Der hybride Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine
21.02.2023 um 18:38frauZimt schrieb:Was steht denn da drinnen? Ich soll mich registrieren. Das möchte ich nicht.
By Catherine Philp | 15 April 2022To the Verwaltung... still not a full quote.
THE TIMES — British special forces have trained local troops in Kyiv for the first time since the war with Russia began, Ukrainian commanders have told The Times.
Officers from two battalions stationed in and around the capital said they had undergone military training, 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.
One Ukrainian special forces commander, who goes by the military nickname “Skiff”, said the 112th battalion, to which his unit was attached, had undergone training last week. The account was confirmed by his senior commander. “They were good guys, the Brits,” the commander, nicknamed “Bear”, said. “They have invited us to visit them when the war is over”.
British military trainers were first sent to Ukraine after the invasion of Crimea. They were withdrawn in February to avoid direct conflict with Russian forces and the possibility of Nato being drawn into the latest conflict.
The United States announced this week that it was supplying $800 million in new weapons to Ukraine, for the first time including artillery, as well as resuming training by American troops. The Pentagon said explicitly that the training would not be conducted on Ukrainian territory. Moscow sent a letter to Washington yesterday demanding that the US stop arming Kyiv, warning of “unpredictable consequences”.