UK increases training for Ukraine
Joint UK-Ukrainian exercises have started this week bolstering western assistance to the eastern European state in its continuing battle with separatists.
UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, launched the exercises that include 75 British military instructors and involve about 1,000 Ukrainian troops.
The numbers of instructors and troops completing training are expected to increase over the next few months.
Military exercises are taking place at the Ukrainian army training centre in the Teterevka area of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine and at five other training centers in other parts of the country.
Fallon has met with Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, to
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