WROCLAW, Poland — A passionate Ukrainian soldier hopes the skills he’s learning from Canadian troops and their allies will ultimately help make a difference in…
“We can’t organize such training in Ukraine because our position is always attacked by rockets and it’s a big problem. But here we’re feeling safe and can train, so it’s amazing,” says a 28-year-old Ukrainian engineer.
“We need to demine territory for offence,” he says. “As well, we need to demine de-occupied territory, because 80 per cent of victims from mines are civilian.” “We train Ukrainian combat engineers in demolition and operations in counter explosive threat. It includes counter IEDs, counter booby traps and countering any other munitions that they find,” he says.
Maj. Lukasz Lasota, a spokesman for the Polish armed forces, says the training would last three months in peacetime. But because of the urgency of the current war, it’s compressed into 30 days.Article content
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