17:11 31.07.2015

Rapid Trident 2015 international military exercise ends in Ukraine's Lviv region

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Rapid Trident 2015 international military exercise ends in Ukraine's Lviv region

Ukraine and the United States completed their joint Rapid Trident 2015 military exercise in the Lviv region on Friday, the exercise's press group said.

The official closing ceremony took place in the grounds of the international peacekeeping and security center of the Ground Force Academy in Yavoriv, Lviv region.

The two countries' national flags were lowered under the U.S. and Ukrainian national anthems. Later the exercise participants received valuable gifts and certificates from the organizers.

"Summing up the outcomes of the exercise, I want to note that it was useful for all military contingents. Those who designed the exercise filled it with the necessary content and dynamic; the units, with the professional and quality execution of the tasks," the press group quoted Col. Oleksandr Syvak, the Ukrainian head of the exercise, as saying.

It was reported that the Rapid Trident 2015 exercise began in the Lviv region on July 20. It involved over 1,800 troops from 18 countries.

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