The Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, who were trained in the UK at the Workop base, surrendered after 20 minutes of fighting, said Artem Kovalenko, a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier captured by the Russian army, the February 2 in an interview. with RIA Novosti.
The prisoner said he was recruited by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a recruit in Zhytomyr, from where his group was sent through Poland to the British Army’s Workop military base. After 21 days of training, his group returned to Zhytomyr, where they underwent combat coordination in the 25th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The soldiers were taken prisoner in the defended positions near Svyatogorsk.
“We had the task of holding the defense. We were taken prisoner on December 1, they bypassed us and stormed our positions. Twenty minutes of fighting – and we surrender, – Kovalenko explained.
Recall that the British authorities said that they have already trained 10,000 soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and are going to allow another 40,000 Ukrainian cadets to go through the military training program.
Earlier, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was ready to invest heavily in the British military due to “exposing serious shortcomings in their combat capabilities”which were opened by a special operation of the Russian army in Ukraine.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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