By AFP 17 February 2023   |   8:55 pm A primary group of greater than 600 Ukrainian troopers have completed a US coaching course involving larger-scale maneuvers that would assist Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon stated Friday. Ukrainian servicemen stroll alongside a road in Siversk on February 17, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photograph by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) A primary group of greater than 600 Ukrainian troopers have completed a US coaching course involving larger-scale maneuvers that would assist Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon stated Friday. “This week, the primary Ukrainian battalion accomplished mixed arms coaching on the M2 Bradley Preventing Car at Grafenwoehr Coaching Space in Germany,” spokesman Brigadier Normal Pat Ryder stated in a press release. The USA has agreed to offer greater than 100 Bradleys — that are armed with 25 mm autocannons and may also fireplace anti-tank missiles — to Ukraine, which is anticipated to launch a counter-offensive towards Russian troops within the coming months. “Roughly 635 Ukrainians accomplished the roughly five-week interval of instruction, which included fundamental soldier duties like marksmanship, together with medical coaching, squad, platoon and firm coaching, and a battalion force-on-force train,” Ryder stated. A mechanized and a area artillery battalion started coaching two weeks in the past, and two extra battalions are as a consequence of begin subsequent week, he added. The USA — which had already been coaching Ukrainian troopers on the usage of numerous weapons techniques promised to Kyiv — introduced the expanded coaching program on the finish of final 12 months. It marks a return to the kind of instruction that was going down inside Ukraine earlier than Russia invaded the nation in February 2022. Newest 16 minutes in the past Geared toward exposing the wealthy African delicacies to travellers and deepen the folks to folks encounters in Africa, the yearly Jollof Rice Struggle (#jollofricewar) by the organisers of one of many largest journey and tourism expo in West Africa,…. 17 minutes in the past I’ve been married for over a 12 months to a person that I’ve identified for nearly 9 years. Our relationship has been rocky from the beginning. I made a decision to marry him as a result of I liked him, or so I believed. 18 minutes in the past When Prankster Turned ‘Crime Detective’ T4T was watching a slightly surreal prank video by Richdim TV just lately. It isn’t the common over flogged pranks which have flooded the Web area.  It started with a center aged girl dragging a bag popularly referred to as ‘Ghana Should Go’ to the again of a home at a really… 19 minutes in the past FORMER Monetary Controller, Academy Press Plc., Lagos and former Director Normal of Gateway Transit, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Otunba Lawrence Babatunde Adekoya, who died on December 24, final 12 months, on the age of 79, will probably be buried right this moment after a funeral service at Saint Thomas EB Church, Makun Omi, Ogun Waterside Loc0l Council, Ogun State at… 1 day in the past A primary group of greater than 600 Ukrainian troopers have completed a US coaching course involving larger-scale maneuvers that would assist Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon stated Friday.