Officers from two battalions stationed in and around the capital said they had received military training from British special forces, one last week and the other last week. Captain Yuriy Myronenko, whose battalion is stationed in Obolon on the northern outskirts of Kiev, said military trainers had come to instruct young and returning soldiers to use NLAW, a British anti-tank missile delivered in February. principle. The aid is said to be crucial to the Ukrainian military effort, as the new recruits and returning veterans who enlisted when the invasion began had no experience with anti-tank missiles. TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL A Ukrainian special forces commander who goes by the military nickname “Skiff” said the 112th Battalion to which his unit was attached had been trained last year.
