In the exercise involved soldiers from 15 countries.
In the Lviv region took place the official opening ceremony of the Ukrainian-American military drills Rapid Trident – 2017.
This year the maneuvers involving about 2,500 soldiers from 15 countries: Ukraine, USA, Canada, Bulgaria, Georgia, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Turkey and the UK, reported in the press service of the defense Ministry.
The largest foreign contingents from the armies of the United States and Canada. Only about 500 people.
From Ukraine include military personnel one of the mechanized brigades of Land forces of the armed forces, airborne brigade, engineer units, individual National guard units, etc.
Also in the command-staff phase of the exercise involved Ukrainian soldiers from structure of LITPOLUKRBRIG, a multinational Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade, which was created in 2014.
Training involved a few dozen units of automotive and light armored vehicles. Exercise firings are expected.
In addition, the training plan envisages a number of joint events involving airplanes and helicopters of military transport aviation. In particular, the elements will be worked medical evacuation, aerial delivery of cargo and personnel, and the like. This will be used the possibility of one of the crews of tactical aircraft, which is stationed in Khmelnytskyi region, and a landing pad on-site MSMB. Only two Mi-8 helicopters, aircraft an-26 and an American C-130.
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