Ukraine's partners, from weapons supplied to training given - Reznikov

The Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov shared the report.

The main focus is on training specialists in the application of:

•  large-caliber artillery systems, self-propelled and trailed;

•  rocket systems of volley fire;

•  means of artillery reconnaissance, including radar;

•  air defense equipment;

•  different types of wheeled and tracked vehicles;

•  demining systems, including underwater;

•  various types of ships and their weapons systems, including anti-ship.

Thousands of Ukrainian servicemen have been trained for the use and operation of foreign-made weapons and military equipment abroad since April, Reznikov said.

"They have already mastered 155 mm artillery systems M777, FH-70, ACS M109, Caesar and PzH 2000, MLRS M142 HIMARS, Crab ACS, as well as a significant number of combat armored vehicles M113, FV-103, Bushmaster, Senator, Mastiff, Husky and Wolfhound," the minister said.

Our partners continue to train the Ukrainian Armed Forces' personnel. Now the next Ukrainian military is acquiring the basics of operation of 155 mm M777 artillery systems, Crab ACS, M142 HIMARS, M270 and MARS II multiple rocket launchers.

Training continues:

•  on the use of Gepard 1A2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns;

•  to control mine minesweepers of the Sundown class;

•  crews of armored personnel carriers VAB, BMP M80-A;

•  air reconnaissance and surveillance specialists;

•  specialists in neutralization of explosives and demining, including underwater.

Training takes place in Great Britain, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, France and Germany, Oleksiy Reznikov said.

He also added that this week, with British support, another project was launched: a course of basic general military training of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen. The first few hundred servicemen have already arrived for training. In total, the project is designed to train more than 1,000 of our servicemen.