Bundeswehr to get instructors from Ukraine
Ukrainian instructors are to contribute their frontline experience directly at German troop schools. An agreement has paved the way for this to happen.
Strausberg (dpa) - The Bundeswehr, Germany’s military, is to get instructors from Ukraine. A Bundeswehr spokesperson said that an agreement to this end had been signed by the German and Ukrainian ministries of defence. “The plan is to incorporate the experience of Ukrainian soldiers into army training, particularly at the army’s troop schools,” he explained. This step is the Bundeswehr’s response to the significant changes that have occurred on the battlefield in Ukraine. For example, Ukrainian soldiers have more extensive experience of deploying and fighting drones, as well as of rapidly integrating modern command and control technologies into combat units.
At a two-day security conference meanwhile, Schleswig-Holstein’s state government is discussing civilian defence and resilience with a delegation from its Ukrainian partner region Kherson. “We are trying to learn from one another and we are facing major challenges, also in Germany, with respect to defence capability, with respect to resilience, with respect to civilian-military defence,” Schleswig-Holstein premier Daniel Günther said at the start of the meeting in which Governor Oleksandr Prokudin is also taking part.
