Inside the mission to turn Ukrainians into war heroes

of 70 Australian soldiers who have just joined this huge British-hosted 10-nation mission, which is turning up to 10,000 everyday Ukrainians into war-fighting grunts.“I can’t stay at home and do nothing when our children die,” she says, losing her fight against tears.The seven-day-a-week training includes crawling across muddy minefields as artillery pounds the paddocks. Capturing Russian soldiers in the woods and finding booby-trapped dead bodies are also part of it.

“My heart is still in Ukraine and I want to go back there. Because we have constant killings of civilians. I do not know if, when I go back, I will see all my friends alive.” One of those men is 31-year-old Ivan, who says he was living a comfortable life in Sumy when the Russians overran the town. “Everyone coming over here was highly motivated to do the best we could, preparing them to go back and develop their country and their freedom,” says one of the Australian officers.

Another potential challenge is that the Ukraine conflict has descended into a tough trench warfare campaign, bearing as much resemblance to World War 1 as it does to the tech-heavy battlefields Australian soldiers might be more used to. But the trainers are sanguine on that, too.“Soldier skills are enduring through all conflicts. The skills that we provide them, they’re broad brush-stroke, how we train any infantry,” the officer says.

After meeting the Ukrainians and watching them train, the pair told journalists of being moved at how far these recruits were from the classic, well-drilled soldier that they might meet on an Australian base.

Oh, so inspirational! As these poor individuals, with not a day’s experience in real combat, get vaporised by thermobaric munitions.

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