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© AP PhotoThis photo released by the acting Governor of Kursk region Alexei Smirnov telegram channel on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, shows a damaged house after shelling by the Ukrainian side in the city of Sudzha, Kursk region that borders Ukraine.
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GENICHESK (Sputnik) - On Friday, Sputnik published for the first time a video from a military base in the UK where local instructors trained soldiers of the Kiev regime.
Ukrainian soldiers who were trained by UK instructors at a base in North Yorkshire practiced fighting in residential areas of the city before being sent to Russia's Kursk region, a Ukrainian serviceman, who fled to Russia from the UK, has told Sputnik.
“There is a firing range and part of a training ground that simulated an urban area. There we practiced storming residential buildings under the guidance of English-speaking British instructors in the presence of interpreters. After the training, we were to be sent to Sudzha [city in the Kursk Region],” the soldier said.
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