14:58 10.02.2016

NATO instructors training Ukrainian military in artillery and aviation fire control

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NATO instructors training Ukrainian military in artillery and aviation fire control

The U.S., Canadian, and Lithuanian instructors provide trainings in artillery and aviation fire control for Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen on the territory of the International Center for Peacemaking and Security of the Petro Sahaidachny Land Forces Academy in Lviv region.

The servicemen perform tasks within various military units, namely, squads, platoons, and companies; learn how to interact within the units; read the battlefield picture; to draw and control artillery and aircraft based fire, etc. Trainings take place in full combat gear and with combat fire. Foreign instructors change training locations and target setting every time. Unit commanders learn to efficiently give orders to soldiers without exposing them to danger; to promptly identify and hit the most dangerous targets, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's press service reported.

"With the help of foreign trainers we have done battle teamwork and individual training in line with NATO standards," the press service quoted mechanized platoon commander, senior sergeant with a codename 'John' as saying. "We find trainings with Americans interesting, as most of the instructors were in conflict zones and teach based on their own combat experience," he added.

According to junior commanders, the foreign counterparts have a lot of interesting techniques. In particular, on training soldiers to properly cover themselves from the enemy fire in open areas; and on how to fire back.

What is more, Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters learn to move around the battlefield.

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