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Ukraine is testing homemade, remotely controlled off-road buggies for the first time, Kyiv disclosed on Friday, as the country looks for reliable ways to supply troops this coming winter.Brave1, the Ukrainian state-backed innovation platform, said it held closed trials for buggies developed by local manufacturers with a special unit under…
CAMP JOMSBORG, POLAND — Ukrainian soldiers are training to combat Russia’s ongoing invasion of their country at a Viking-themed camp purpose-built on NATO soil.Training at Camp Jomsborg in eastern Poland, roughly two hours from the border with Ukraine, is led by the Norwegians, whose Viking ancestors were famed for their…
The threat of Russian drones is keeping Ukrainian troops stuck near the front for longer stretches and forcing the military to think more about how it delivers medical care to soldiers who can’t easily leave.For one Ukrainian military unit that specializes in front-line casualty evacuation, the lesson is that battlefield…
Ukraine’s front lines are unforgivingly brutal, and soldiers are often injured or killed just rotating in and out of their own trench systems, a Western commander leading a training program for Ukrainian soldiers told Business Insider.”We hear that Ukrainian forces take quite a few casualties infiltrating and exfiltrating out of…
Western militaries training Ukrainian troops for war with Russia can’t rely on the usual cycle of periodically updated manuals because battlefield lessons are changing too quickly, a NATO commander told Business Insider.Norway is leading multinational training for Ukrainian troops at Camp Jomsborg, a purpose-built camp in eastern Poland, as part…
Ukraine is giving its missing troops a bonus for rejoining the war: The chance to choose their new area of deployment, commander, and job.Kyiv’s defense ministry said on Friday that it would allow troops who are absent without leave, or AWOL, to choose from over 70 units across its three…
Anxious after the shock removal of Ukraine’s reformist defense minister, the country’s front-line troops say that they’ve found some solace in a new appointment for another key war role — commander in chief.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed 43-year-old Brig. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi as the country’s new top general on Tuesday.For…
