France has completed the training of a brigade of 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers, the French Ministry of Defense reported on the X social network.
“The first combined arms brigade trained and equipped in France has completed its training” – the message said.
France trained a brigade of soldiers from the 155th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including three infantry battalions, an engineering and artillery corps, surveillance and ground-to-air reconnaissance. The Ukrainians were trained by fifteen hundred French soldiers.
Earlier on Thursday, French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu and the head of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jean-Noël Barrot He visited a military base in the Marne department in eastern France, where Ukrainian military personnel completed their training.