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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeap. Reeeeeaaaaal secret. eyeroll

I suppose this is fairly mild, as clickbait titles go. Small pet peeve of mine though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well Politico belongs to the Springer company. I don't expect them to actually be journalists

[–] bernieecclestoned 1 points 1 year ago

Aren't they ex wapo journos?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


On a cold and sunny November day, the Ukrainians — both volunteers and draftees — are in the fourth and final week of training in a French military camp, part of a 48-hour exercise to put into practice what they’ve learned over the past month.

From 5.30 a.m. to 8 p.m., six days a week, the French have been teaching their Ukrainian counterparts the skills of storming trenches and infantry fighting, including combat in urban and forest areas.

Back home, Ukrainians will return to a battlefield that has become, in the words of Ukraine's top general, bogged down in World War I-style trench warfare.

While the French claim that adapting to the criticism didn't require massive changes because the programs have always been flexible, they’re now putting a bigger emphasis on awareness of threats coming from the sky.

In one of the scenarios, Ukrainians equipped with smoke bombs and French FAMAS assault rifles firing blanks had to take a muddy trench and secure it against an enemy attack.

Besides military tactics, Ukraine asked France to prepare future soldiers to endure harsh battlefield conditions and operate in cold, noisy environments while sleep deprived, the French officers said.


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