Americans will train the National Guard of Ukraine for 8 months in a row

Moscow - Kyiv, March 30 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Training of fighters of the National Guard of Ukraine by the American military will begin on April 20 and will take place for 8 weeks in the Lviv region. Details of the upcoming exercises were revealed by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov on his Facebook.

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"290 American paratroopers will land at the Yavoriv training ground in the Lviv region on April 20. It is here, in accordance with agreements with the US State Department, that long-term joint training exercises will take place between the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade and combat units of the National Guard," RBK quotes Avakov as saying.

According to him, 900 National Guard soldiers will be involved in the training. “Three streams of 300 National Guardsmen each. Three streams of 8 weeks. Then joint exercises. Such well-known units of the National Guard as “Azov”, “Battalion named after. Kulchitsky”, “Jaguar”, “Omega” and other units from Kyiv, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnitsa,” the Ukrainian minister specified.