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About 8,800 U.S.-trained Ukrainian troops are back in their home country ahead of an anticipated spring counter-offensive meant to oust Russia from the one-sixth of Ukraine’s territory they still occupy. Another 2,250 are currently training at U.S. bases in Germany, a U.S. official said April 20, 2023.
That updates a March 30, 2023 statement that the U.S. had trained more than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
The U.S. training is just one part of the European effort to improve the effectiveness of the Ukrainian army. Britain has put some 10,000 Ukrainian civilians through a five week boot camp, and plans to train 20,000 more this year. And more thousands received some training from U.S. troops before Putin invaded in February 2022. But foreign-trained troops are just a fraction of the Ukrainian armed forces, which has grown from its pre-invasion total of 246,445 troops to more than 700,000.
The Pentagon leaks show 12 Ukrainian combat brigades of about 4,000 soldiers each are expected to be ready at the end of April. The United States and NATO allies are training and supplying nine of those brigades, the documents said.
Amost half of the U.S.-trained troops—some 4,600—are members of mechanized battalions who were trained in combined arms tactics, Cmdr. Lenaya Rotklein, a spokeswoman for the U.S.’s Security Assistance Group-Ukraine, said on April 20, 2023. Combined arms tactics consist of closely coordinating actions between infantry, tanks, artillery, and other combat arms, which Ukraine may be expected to use in assaults during its counteroffensive.
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