The first group of military from Ukraine completed training at an American military base in Germany. This was stated during a briefing by US Department of Defense spokesman Pat Ryder, CNN reports..

According to Ryder, we are talking about a group of 635 Ukrainians who were trained at the Grafenwehr training ground, where the US military conducts combined arms and maneuver exercises.. The battalion also trained to work with the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle..

A Pentagon spokesman added that the next battalion of 710 Ukrainian Armed Forces has already begun training at the same training ground.. Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and the M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer will be used for training. In addition, next week another 890 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin training on the Stryker armored personnel carrier..

Ryder also said that the United States had previously offered the Ukrainian military more limited-scale training with individual weapons systems, such as the Himars MLRS.. The transition to battalion exercises is a significant expansion of US efforts to educate and train Ukrainian military personnel in a long war.

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In the United States, we recall, they previously announced that the first batch of Bradley combat vehicles is already heading to Ukraine.. We are talking about more than 60 pieces of equipment.