As of today, 18,000 Ukrainian infantrymen have been trained under the British Interflex program.
Source.This is stated on Twitter by the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
"As part of the Interflex program, which is led by the United Kingdom and aimed at training infantrymen from among Ukrainian volunteers, 18,000 recruits have been trained so far," the statement said on Saturday, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
The British Ministry of Defense reminds that the Interflex program was launched on 26 June 2022.
It "teaches Ukrainians how to survive and be lethal in the fight against illegal invasion of their homeland."
Background. As a reminder, Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said that the main difference between the Ukrainian army and the russian army is that the Armed Forces are gradually moving away from the Soviet model of command.