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NATO trained thousands of Ukrainian soldiers for urban battles

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Over the past six years, military specialists have trained about 16 thousand Ukrainian soldiers in urban combat, said Colonel General of the Armed Forces (AFU) Alexander Sirsky. and intends to further develop cooperation with, reports.

Sirsky made the statement at a joint press conference with the commander of the ground forces, Lieutenant General Roger Cloutier.

He stressed that since 2015, officers of the alliance's international training missions have trained more than 19 thousand Ukrainian soldiers, 16 thousand of whom have learned how to conduct combat in cities. According to the Ukrainian military leader, in the future it is planned to develop the system of training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of.

“With the help of our American partners, a simulation center is being created,” Sirsky said.

He added that in the near future, joint exercises will be organized to train mechanized motorized infantry brigades. The purpose of practicing maneuvers is to improve the quality and intensity of training of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Military experts, as Rambler reported, predict that in the spring the situation in Donbass will worsen, and the Ukrainian army will go on the offensive. Against the background of news about the upcoming escalation of the conflict, it became known that, together with Ukraine, closer to the summer, they would organize a major military exercise in the immediate vicinity of Crimea and the Kaliningrad region. It is assumed that the troops will play the “expansion of the Suwalki corridor” (a hypothetical land “corridor” between Belarus and the Kaliningrad region – ed.), And also work out the “isolation of Crimea” from Russia.

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