First Ukrainian Soldiers Graduate from U.K. Facility Under Australian Training

About 200 Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) recruits marched out from a UK-led and based training program under the instruction of the first Australian contingent deployed on Operation Kudu.
The program, which has seen nine partner nations train more than 10,000 Ukrainians, has the recruits undergo intensive combat training to rapidly learn the foundations of warfighting, using realistic and relevant scenarios designed to mimic the conditions in Ukraine.
This rotation of the volunteer force has been taught weapons handling and firing, wooded and urban fighting, trench warfare and medical survival skills by Australian instructors – who arrived in January this year, an Australian MoD release said Monday.
Commander of the Australian Contingent on Operation Kudu, Major Gregory Sargeant, said, “some of this training will be close to what many of you will soon be facing, or have already faced at home.”
A Ukrainian National Support Element (NSE) Commander expressed his pride to the new graduates.
The now privates, or ‘soldats’, will return to Ukraine to join their units and commence their new roles in their home country.