Ukrainian soldiers will be trained and trained in the United States

Patriot missiles are seen at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, on March 25, 2022, in Jasionka, Poland.

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This is a new sign of American support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers called upon to use the Patriot anti-missile missile batteries will be educated and trained in the United States.

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With our correspondent in Washington,

The base of Fort Sill, in the State of Oklahoma, in the center of the United States, will accommodate a little less than a hundred Ukrainian soldiers.

It is there that they will be trained in the handling of the most sophisticated anti-aircraft defense system in the American arsenal, which the United States has decided to supply to Ukraine after months of requests from kyiv and debates in Washington.

In principle, training American soldiers for the same takes about a year.

In this specific case, and given the urgency of the situation and the almost daily Russian strikes, the US Department of Defense will try to speed things up.

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For months, Ukrainian soldiers have been studious, responsive and efficient in learning the weapons systems supplied to them by the United States.

Except that so far, most of the training and training has taken place on German territory.

It will be the first time since the beginning of the Russian aggression that the United States will train Ukrainian soldiers on its soil.

It is a further sign of

.

It is added to the delivery of increasingly sophisticated and numerous weapons.

The last tranche of aid, including armed armored vehicles, amounts to more than 3 billion dollars.

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