The gear they are given is not just used for training and is not handed back after they complete the course. Britain supplies every Ukrainian we train with a full kit to take with them, right down to first aid kits and winter thermal gear. The AKs were sourced by the MOD from all over Europe, they bought several different models specifically for this training. I can hear the weapons training from my office at ranges just down the road. There are Canadian and Swedish trainers here on the south coast.

I was not personally directly involved in Op Interflex and Op Orbital, which preceded it, but the people I worked with who were directly involved all spoke very, very highly of the Ukrainians. Op Orbital involved the Ukrainian regular military and they were already hardened, but, as the video you posted shows well, Interflex was more comprised of former civvies, but they were already battle hardened. The words I heard people say of them were that they were like sponges, they soaked everything up, they were bright, clever people who were very purposeful in their approach and therefore more like training military in mindset. I'm also aware of the contact that has been maintained and the losses that are felt here in the UK. you may well have seen our lads saluting them as they left - the respect is of the highest.

As an Irish person this gives me a lot of respect for the British military. This is the kind of thing the UK should be proud of.

I was personally involved in the preparation of the Infantry elements featured in the documentary. Training too place in multiple locations throughout England, It was a multinational training each location had A British Regt paired with either Danish, Swedish, Canadians, Finnish etc. I was part of Battlefield Medical Trauma training, of which none of this training was covered in the film, probably due the visceral effect it may have on viewers. We 'Actor's' mostly amputees were made up with prosthetics, fake blood, destroyed clothing were placed in trench systems, tree lines for FIWAF and buildings for FIBUA / OBUA. The Ukrainians were trained and tested in care under fire, casualty extraction methods, full CAS body checks, signs and symptoms and treatment. This included the treatment of OPFOR to enable Intel gathering. They were strong committed and passionate about getting back to defend their country.

Got a Ukrainian lad in my Judo club, training since he was four. Trained five days a week back home, he's a good scrapper and as he told me we've been training for this for years. Slava Ukraine!

that "Battle of Britain" comparison is spot on, i've been telling people that this is like 1938-1941.. not as in a doom or gloom type of way but in a way where we need to kick ourselves(the west) into gear.. but as always great video man! always happy to see a video pop up from you!

3:34 patch of the 25th Airborne Brigade 5:03 one of the Spartan Brigade 15:42 one of the 92nd Assault Brigade

The pain in that medics eyes ❤

Greetings from Donetsk 🟦🟨🔱

I have been out to Ukraine three times now delivering aid and equipment and let me tell you that the soldiers & the civilian population are thankful that their troops are being trained by the British Army and I am proud of that fact . Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦❤️🇬🇧

Go Scots. MY god this makes me so proud to be British. Slava Ukraine.

I'm really quite emotional - seeing UK troups training the Ukranians but wearing the Red Dessert Rat patch my grandfather wore.

For any of the people on social media who have lost their stomach to support the Ukrainians (the vast majority being from the US)I hope they will look at these Ukrainian trainee's and try to put themselves in THEIR shoes. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇬🇧

Many thanks from the Ukrainian people for their support and help in the fight against evil. 🙏

I've spoken to a lot of members of the British armed forces plus reservists and they've all said they wish they could be there in Ukraine fighting alongside the Ukrainians. Many seemed sincerely pained that they can't be there.

Came off Interflex in December after 6 months definitely a humbling and rewarding experience. Seeing the development of the trainees from their initial intro ex to the end of the 5 weeks was an interesting journey. Not a huge amount of time but the training has and will save lives in Ukraine.

Im so happy seen this video!!! OMG, I was there. I'm been in this urban area, I was in this camp. It's Bodney camp, we're trained here by Scottish instructors on leadership courses, right after basic courses with Australians. I so happy see all familiar places again, I can even recognise bushes where our section resting, and I chilling with finish soldier, who was there as spectator.

Good training, the British Army has always trained ordinary soldiers to be leaders. A tactic which brings a new level to the battlefield, where a UK serviceman can take charge, or understand the orders they need to carryout with precise leathiality!

Outstanding video CAC, thank you. I am so in awe of the Ukrainian people, they have a powerful will. They will survive and achieve their objectives. Slava Ukraine, glory to the hero's. Thanks to the Brits.

The Commonwealth, and Scandinavian and Baltic, Dutch trainers have been a great help too...thank you for sharing this with us all,best wishes from the wirral peninsula...E..😊😊

Enormous respect to the Ukrainian volunteers; the story of the young lady art student gave me a lump in the throat, such a change and such courage. Long after my own time serving, but I can vouch for the effectiveness of our DS in training people well and efficiently..

Thank you for all the British coverage you do mate. Really enjoy seeing American covering a bit of everything and not just focused on US stuff. Will always be proud of the British Army and stuff like this is why. Keep up the great content.

i hate being british on a daily basis due to political nonsense or whatever, but this is something that really fires up whatever patriotism I have left at the moment, proud of the help our army can provide, Ukrainians are our family and we protect our family

Thank you for being someone who cares about Ukraine. Your videos are always informative and compassionate. 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇦

Not berets- Tam O Shanters. My old unit originally.

UK was the first to start training of the Ukraine forces but I believe they soon found out that British forces did not have enough trainers. So the MOD invited other countries to send trainers to UK to help. I believe Finland, Netherlands, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were amongst the initial wave, U.S Spain and other nations joined.I believe UK has trained around 75,000 Ukrainians to date. Which is more vital than weapons as its the guts and knowledge make a weapon deadly. These trained go back to Ukraine to fight on the frontline or train other Ukrainians using what they learned in UK.

A lot of Canadians are here, have been for nearly two years in south east England. Kent training up troops with the Royal Gurkhas.

Slava Ukraine! Wish all these men and women safety and success.

Proud to be British 🇬🇧glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦

My youngest Son has been to all those conflict,retired from the Army 3 years ago after 25 years in the Coldstream Guards, joined at 16 left as a Warrant Officer,he would have stayed longer if he could,so proud of him and my eldest joined 3 Para'

I’m on Interflex now, and the quality does really vary, other than trenches, trenches they’re absolute machines on

I know it would never be filmed or shown but I would love to see a video of the SAS training Ukrainian SF! 100% it's happening

David Cameron brought Ukrainians over in 2015 for training after the 2014 invasion. It explains a big part as to why the Russians failed to take Kiev airport in February 2022.

22:25 they're junior leaders, so corporals. They lead a section, I'm pretty sure Americans call it a squad, a section is 8 men, the US is 10 men. The majority possibly all of the training the British Army has conducted in the UK has been for corporals, sergeants and junior officers. I believe all the basic training that we've been doing for the Ukrainian recruits is taking place in Eastern European countries. This must have been filmed over a year ago for the figure to only be 30k trained so far as if I remember right it was the beginning of last year that something like 30k Ukrainians were coming over at the same time for training. They're being trained all over the UK, the British Army has to book ranges and training areas further in advance than normal due to the Ukrainian training. When the Challenger 2 crews were going through their training, the British tank regiments were having training cancelled last minute for the Ukrainians to use training areas and facilities. The British soldiers could even be on exercise on a training area that was booked and part way through be told they could no longer use certain areas as it was now being used for the Ukrainians. It really is a massive effort being put in by the British Army, and they are giving the Ukrainians priority as they should.

Even though I'm pretty decent in English (my opinion), it would really require a life or death situation to understand the Scotts. Or Aussies going full Aussie for that matter. I sure am happy for any help Ukraine gets in their battle against evil, don't get me wrong!

Thank you for covering this. As an ex-British Army vet (and English) I agree that the jocks are awesome. Really great lads to work beside and formidable soldiers. I don’t know about the rest of you out there but I am guilty of making the mistake of thinking the days of trench warfare were behind us. As shocking and awful as Putins invasion of Ukraine is, it has also been interesting to see the evolution of warfare in some areas and yet not in others. No matter how sexy kit gets, it still comes down to boots on the ground. My heart goes out to the bravery of the Ukrainian people and it must be truly humbling for those on Interflex to be able to do something to help.

Love your videos mate 👍

The regiment that is training the Ukrainian troops is the 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland formally the 1st Battalion Queens own Highlanders and The Gordon Highlanders.

LONG LIVE UKRAINE!

excellent vid , thanks

I have always loved the pipes - they are THE instrument I would follow into battle

Dude, love your posts. I was born in the UK with Irish / scouse genes and I can't understand half of what the Scot said. Proud for what we are doing

Extremely proud of our country and it's contribution so far. I know the professionalism and knowledge being passed on is invaluable and the best in the world. I wish we could all do more though, this is so important. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧

Always love your reactions Mr Theo

Our military is small, smaller than its ever been - but we are really well trained and have a great 'just get fcking stuck in' attitude. We will always help our friends/allies the best we can - it makes sense that if we cant/dont need to provide numbers, we will train you just as well as our own.

This is what makes me proud to be Britsh

Great to see the UK training the Ukrainian troops. Ireland has sent IED experts to Poland to train Ukrainian engineers in mine and IED tactics, learned over many years in Lebanon, Syria, and the troubles.

Caring and fighting

Great vid and reactions, thanks mate! - Oh, and yeah - at 23:00 - I'm Welsh, and I need a translator for what that soldier said, too - these Ukrainian translators must be top notch!

My Scottish boy is godlike, greetings from Ukraine

There is a big difference between how Ukrainians are starting off then British, this is because the Ukrainians have been through a lot already, normally they would be dropped on screaming and shouting with a real nasty attitude and fixed Bayonets into sandbags with blood patches for reality. However they are being taught by the best. You will be able to see through their attitude and body language.

Epic upload!

Mate, I'm Scottish, our mentality is don't give a sh*t, sometimes a good or bad thing

A lot of the training takes place at Catterick in Yorkshire.

Best trained in the world and it’s true, just need more money putting into our military from this awful government

The company equivalent for tanks (mounted soldiers) is a squadron

thx 4 video and hi from Ukraine

This is what we call the "Right Stuff"

I think they had Aks for years,I remember stripping them down in Sennybridge as cadets .

I wish i had some conversations with those guys. They're funny,strong,remarkable as fuck.

Time for Britain to re-arm and get ready. We have the skills and the traditions; no time to waste.

5:08 is the Royal Regiment of Scotland

Amazing work by our military. Also, I love the fact you watch Limmy. You should get to Yoker.

It's duty be love and commitment

Tanks Regiments are organised by Troops and squadrons, 4 troops to the Squadron, 4 Squadrons to a regiment normally A,B,C,D also HQ Squadron containing the usual support elements Recce Troop, QM Quartermaster stores (Boots & Socks), QMtech( vehicle spares, technical supplies) MT (trucks, landrovers, ) RAP (Regimental aid post where the Doc lives) all the rear echelon guys chefs and stuff.

I took part in Op Interflex training Ukrainians trench warfare with the 5th battalion the rifles

Mostly overcast, raining. Probably one of our summers.

Great video

That weapon system is the AR-M9F. It was brought in so you could have an AK style platfrom that uses the 5.56 round and also blanks without modification, so the British don't have to deal with multiple caliber ammo and the ukrainians can train on a familiar platform throughout. When this operation started the brits had to gather up alm different old AK variants laying around (russian, chinese, czech, you name it...), because they just didn't have too may of them. This posed a problem because of the different models and such, so you couldn't fire blanks with them due to the lack of blank firing adapters, o they had to train the ukrainians on the AK style platform, but use the SA80 for blank fire training, so you might see how that was a logistical nightmare.

Seriously impressive translator. Even as a brit, and married to a scot for a decade, I struggle. That is one thick accent.

Many countries are training Ukraine soldiers, but the UK was first, I see many sites that claim the US is also training them but I cant see this is true.

Nice Theo. Love you vids! How about some new stuff by 3d assault brigade AFU? They have a new intense video "Raid to Krasnogorivka".

Really enjoyed this ..was in w.germany early 80 before the wall came down,way too many alerts to the border watching E.germans and russians,,never knowing who was going to start off..definitely a tense time.great to work with nato forces,learning the languages were key..

I teared up a few times. Especially when the girl who was an art student told her story. God speed to each and everyone of them.

Motivation

If you can operate in constantly changing shite uk weather you can probably operate most places, as for the language barrier, you have to remember that even though everyone is technically speaking English, for our tiny island country the range of accents is mind boggling, people like myself from Glasgow speak totally different as to those from Wales, Newcastle, Liverpool, London, west country etc etc in a country thats about 600 miles from top to bottom.

Love for love

Alex Pereira, thanx for supporting Ukraine You my favourite UFC fighter😁

Wonder if they take the UK camouflage kit and guns back with them

Great video. 😅

well if you wana be at your best in war, then who better to train you but the best

4:20 A lot of the time, Theyre trained at Salisbury Plain which I think it funny considering the fact Russia poisoned the town of Salisbury and got away with it

We stand united with Ukraine always 🇬🇧🇺🇦🫡

just donated 15 bucks to red cross for Ukraine, else was gonna waste it on a game. ( just wanted to say that somewhere.) not much but another blanket or meal... ( edit ) and i doubled it....cause i found 15 bucks too low. ( im one of the lucky ones) so 30..

14:35 I did not get tear in my eyes. Not that I would tell.

Long live the king! God bless America! Glory to Ukraine!

They are not berets, they are Tam O'Shanters, and the colour of the hackle denotes the battalion.

My son is in the Ukraine hes served meny times from 18 he's now 51 i have to pray he's still alive

God bless

My guess is that they probably got the AKs from either Poland or Bulgaria or possibly both you can tell that those AKs are chambered for 5.56 by looking at the mags.

Pray

Thank you

Them Ukrainians MM-14 Digital Camouflage (Brown, Khaki, and Light Olive on a Sand-colored Background) is as Regular MultiCam like in a way & as complete/true Universal Camouflage Pattern it can possibly/realistically get!

Night love and fight forever

If you are able try and access the BBC Comedy Bluestone 4-2. Extremely funny and of its time - probably not something to review more for personal watching all I know is I enjoyed it and every Brit who served in Afghan said its the nearest thing they have seen to their time on deployment

It'd be really cool if you reacted to the last two new videos by the 3rd Assault Bridge you had reacted before. One of these videos, particularly "experience from Bahkmut" is also about training and how they combine NATO experience and our own. The second video was uploaded yesterday, and includes a battle in a village.

Damn, Limmy was my "teacher" of Scottish English. He's awesome.

Isn’t it odd how despite the mobility of WW2 and the predicted mobility of combat from conflicts after, we Brits still practice trench warfare, (something I believe the Falklands showed us) is still very much needed also it’s a bloody great way to stop a highly less well trained army in its tracks.

Here’s praying for these brave guys in the Ukraine. 😊

The trench bit they wasn't wearing eye protection, Always gives me anxiety seeing that lol