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World News See other World News Articles Title: NATO School: Who and What Was Taught by Western Military Instructors in Ukraine Handling modern weapons, mining roads, and blowing up cars, as well as carrying out sabotage and terrorist attacks. The scale of the "training programme" that foreign military instructors came to Ukraine with is impressive. They trained not only the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also militants of the nationalist battalions. First Sign During the celebration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Day in December 2014, then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the Ukrainian Army "is already capable of withstanding the largest military power on the continent". According to him, "only a year of emergency development of the army made it possible to revive the Armed Forces of Ukraine". But the pace of this evolution did not suit Kiev, so already in March 2015, the UK, the US, and Poland indicated their intent to provide Kiev with military instructors. About 300 servicemen of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade were among the first to arrive at the Yavorov training centre in the Lvov region to train employees of three battalions of the National Guard. The US ambassador to Ukraine admired the pedagogical talent of his countrymen by posting a video of the “final exam” on social networks. In the video, one of the instructors was seen saying that the training had gone great and that they had helped their Ukrainian counterparts to better understand the role of gunners and standard artillery skills. The video also showed mortar fire by American soldiers in the presence of Ukrainians and a master class on conducting searches. Later on, Poroshenko stated that military instructors from Canada, as well as representatives of the UK Armed Forces, Poland, and "many other countries" intended to join the American specialists. The Ukrainian president, who had talked about the strongest army in Europe, thanked everyone “for the military and technical assistance”. History of Geography Gradually, the geography of “assistance” expanded, and new "subjects" were added to the curriculum of Western instructors. Servicemen from Poland, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Algeria, and Poland went to Ukraine on business trips of various durations. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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