By AFP 17 February 2023 | 8:55 pm A first group of more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers have finished a US training course involving larger-scale maneuvers that could aid Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon said Friday. Ukrainian servicemen walk along a street in Siversk on February 17, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) A first group of more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers have finished a US training course involving larger-scale maneuvers that could aid Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon said Friday. “This week, the first Ukrainian battalion completed combined arms training on the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany,” spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said in a statement. The United States has agreed to provide more than 100 Bradleys — which are armed with 25 mm autocannons and can also fire anti-tank missiles — to Ukraine, which is expected to launch a counter-offensive against Russian troops in the coming months. “Approximately 635 Ukrainians completed the approximately five-week period of instruction, which included basic soldier tasks like marksmanship, along with medical training, squad, platoon and company training, and a battalion force-on-force exercise,” Ryder said. A mechanized and a field artillery battalion began training two weeks ago, and two more battalions are due to start next week, he added. The United States — which had already been training Ukrainian soldiers on the use of various weapons systems promised to Kyiv — announced the expanded training program at the end of last year. It marks a return to the type of instruction that was taking place inside Ukraine before Russia invaded the country in February 2022. Latest 16 mins ago Aimed at exposing the rich African cuisine to travellers and deepen the people to people encounters in Africa, the yearly Jollof Rice War (#jollofricewar) by the organisers of one of the biggest travel and tourism expo in West Africa,…. 17 mins ago I’ve been married for over a year to a man that I’ve known for almost nine years. Our relationship has been rocky from the start. I decided to marry him because I loved him, or so I thought. 18 mins ago When Prankster Turned ‘Crime Detective’ T4T was watching a rather surreal prank video by Richdim TV recently. It is not the regular over flogged pranks that have flooded the Internet space. It began with a middle aged woman dragging a bag popularly called ‘Ghana Must Go’ to the back of a house at a very… 19 mins ago FORMER Financial Controller, Academy Press Plc., Lagos and former Director General of Gateway Transit, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Otunba Lawrence Babatunde Adekoya, who died on December 24, last year, at the age of 79, will be buried today after a funeral service at Saint Thomas EB Church, Makun Omi, Ogun Waterside Loc0l Council, Ogun State at… 1 day ago A first group of more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers have finished a US training course involving larger-scale maneuvers that could aid Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon said Friday.
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