More than 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in the United Kingdom as part of British-led Operation INTERFLEX.
~
NATO Allies and partners, led by the British Armed Forces, are helping turn Ukrainian civilians into soldiers ready to defend their country.
At a training ground in the United Kingdom, the civilians are getting a five-week crash course in military discipline and infantry tactics as part of Operation INTERFLEX, a UK-led effort to replenish the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with trained soldiers. Since 2022, 45,000 Ukrainians soldiers have been trained under INTERFLEX, which includes instructors from 12 other countries.
Each cohort of trainees receives training on everything from trench warfare, urban combat and fireteam tactics, to battlefield medicine, survival skills, counter-drone warfare and instruction on the laws of armed conflict. The curriculum is informed by battlefield intelligence and is constantly updated to ensure that the soldiers receive relevant training. The UK is also equipping the Ukrainian soldiers with uniforms and equipment that they use during the training and will take back to their home country.
This NATO Multimedia footage, filmed last Thursday and released on Friday, was captured during a media day hosted by the UK Ministry of Defence. It was held in honour of Ukrainian Independence Day, celebrated on 24 August, the anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Footage includes shots of Ukrainian volunteers learning how to treat and evacuate casualties during combat scenarios, as well as interviews with a Ukrainian volunteer and British Army officers.
Shot list:-
- 00:00 – Trainers giving Ukrainian volunteers a lesson on casualty extraction
- 00:18 – Volunteers attending to a simulated casualty
- 00:30 – Volunteer armed, helping to secure extraction site
- 00:34 – Volunteers extracting a simulated casualty, while others secure site
- 01:24 – Armed volunteers running through trench
- 01:30 – Volunteers attending to a simulated casualty
- 01:41 – Volunteers extracting a simulated casualty
- 01:45 – Volunteers attending to a simulated casualty in a trench
- 02:10 – Trainers giving Ukrainian volunteers a lesson on casualty extraction
- 02:34 – Volunteers stood in line, armed, on training ground
- 02:37 – Trainers giving Ukrainian volunteers a lesson on attending to a casualty
- 03:35 – Ukrainian volunteers stood watching the lesson
- 03:48 – Soundbite: Mykola, Ukrainian Army volunteer
- 04:01 – Soundbite: Mykola, Ukrainian Army volunteer
- 04:28 – Soundbite: Major Barrett, Operation INTERFLEX
- 05:01 – Soundbite: Lieutenant Burman, Operation INTERFLEX
- 05:17 – Soundbite: Lieutenant Burman, Operation INTERFLEX
~
