Hundreds of Ukrainian men charged across windswept northern England in army drills on Thursday (February 16), some of more than 10,000 sent to Britain over the last year to turn them into soldiers in the war against Russia.
Under the tutelage of forces from Britain, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, among others, the Ukrainians will be taught over five weeks about the laws of armed conflict, urban and trench warfare, weaponry and battlefield medicine.
One of the recruits, a 48-year Ukrainian furniture maker who called himself Nick, said a year ago he could not have envisaged that he would be taking lessons in warfare in the north of England.


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