US paratroopers will begin training Ukrainian guardsmen at the end of April
Moscow - Kyiv, March 20 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - About 290 paratroopers of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in the Italian Vicenza, will arrive in eastern Ukraine in April to train three battalions of the Ukrainian National Guard, reports Reuters citing Pentagon spokesman Steve Warren. But their start date will depend on the progress of implementation of the Minsk agreements.
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The training will take place at the Yavoriv training center in western Ukraine and is expected to begin at the end of April. The exact start date of the exercises has not been finalized.
Plans for holding them were first announced after the defeat of Ukrainian troops in the “Ilovaisk Cauldron” in August 2014, they remind "Vedomosti".
Training was supposed to begin in mid-March 2015, but the issue was postponed. According to the commander of US ground forces in Europe, Ben Hodges, the start of the training mission was postponed, in particular, in order to not give Moscow a reason to refuse to implement the peace agreements on Ukraine.
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