By David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Army paratroopers began military training for small units of the Ukrainian national guard on Monday despite Russian warnings that the action could destabilize the country’s tenuous cease-fire.
Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said 300 members of the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade based in Vicenza, Italy, began long-planned training for about 300 Ukrainians at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center at Yavoriv in western Ukraine near the Polish border.
The unit is expected to train a total of 900 guardsmen in three rotations over six months, Warren said. He said the training included everything from …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
