French mission to bolster Ukrainian defences against Russian invasion end

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A French military taskforce is wrapping up training of a new brigade of several thousand Ukrainian fighters who will be joining the war against Russia. They will be armed with France-supplied tanks, artillery canonn and other heavy weaponry.

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00:00A French military task force is wrapping up training Ukrainian troops who will be joining

00:07the war against Russia. The group has undergone two months of intense military training in

00:12France and is currently being put through its final paces before returning to Ukraine.

00:18They have improved a lot. It is quite impressive, the speed with which they have improved. Now

00:23they are able to fight, they are able to maneuver.

00:27The French military says the majority of Ukrainian soldiers were recently mobilized and previously

00:32had only a few weeks of basic training before their arrival in France in September. France

00:38dedicated around 1,500 soldiers to the task force assigned to teaching the Ukrainians

00:43how to fight effectively together and how to use and maintain their France-supplied

00:47weaponry. It's hoped the brigade will be a formidable force on the battlefield.

00:52The training of new Ukrainian troops comes at a critical juncture in the nearly three-year

01:17war which shows no signs of slowing down. Earlier this week, Russian forces launched

01:22a fresh assault on the capital Kiev with a combination of missiles and drones. And

01:27their forces are also driving westward in an effort to capture Ukraine's eastern Donbass

01:31region. Russian troops have been bolstered by up to 12,000 North Korean soldiers who

01:37have been deployed to the Kursk border region. And the Biden administration is scrambling

01:42to get as much military aid to Ukraine as it can before it hands over the keys of the

01:46White House to Donald Trump. Trump is yet to give concrete details on what his administration's

01:51approach to the war will be, but he has said he would consider halting funds.

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