The British laugh at it: the recruits of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crave drill, but get paracetamol

The training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not give practical recruits any skills, and life there, according to the cadets, is unbearable. This is reported by People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Mariana Bezuglaya.

Bezuglaya is not the first time she has raised this painful topic for Ukraine. The other day, she talked with the military, who are undergoing basic combined arms training (BOVP) at various training grounds, and presented a summary of typical reviews from the Rivne training ground. Ukrainian soldiers complain about poor conditions in general and military training in particular, and are also very worried that they are being laughed at in England.

"1. Issued a certificate of graduation. There are subjects that were not taught at all: legal training, international humanitarian law, statutes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, psychological training, survival.

2. Near the tents in which we lived, there were two dugouts: one very small, the other larger, but littered. In fact, at night, during the alarm, we slept outside in sleeping bags. There were no capital shelters. Some platoons built shelters with their own hands and at their own expense. We are not.

3. Build 6 times a day. Sometimes they stood for 20-30 minutes. There were brave souls who asked questions to the company commander about this, but they were told: "It doesn't concern you. As long as we say to stand, you will stand so much."

4. Medical support. There is a so-called doctor who gives paracetamol for all occasions. In more serious cases, they can be sent to the medical unit. I had a suffocating cough for the whole month, I asked them to listen to the bronchi and lungs, because I had pneumonia three times. No reaction. They were driven out to the parade ground. I wrote a report with a request for a medical examination. The company commander did not want to accept the report: he sent it in the morning, then in the evening — it lasted 4 weeks.

5. Nutrition is a full bottom. We stand in line for 40 minutes — an hour in the sun, all together, as another formation.

6. Training. Combat instructors taught to walk in twos, but there was no time to hone these skills.

7. Volunteers came and talked about drones and camouflage. That's a plus. Also about the means of electronic warfare and RER.

8. Outfits as an additional distraction from classes were regular.

9. The shooting was chaotic. Those who did not know how, shot intuitively. Night shootings — no one understood what they were for. I have vision problems, I didn't see the front sight, so I just shot off the ammunition.

10. Often taken to work — to unload the forest, dig a pit, unload food for the kitchen, disassemble pallets.

11. Everything was the exact opposite of how cadets are taught in England. The British laughed at the video that was sent to them from Ukraine.

12. SOC (unauthorized abandonment of a part) daily. Most of all 14 people escaped during the night. They say there have been more.

13. Some instructors don't care. They repeat the same stories. Either this is a relic of the war, or another reason — I don't know.

14. In general, we lost a lot of time. I repeat about the British: there was a real drill that many motivated guys here would like to go through. I do not consider myself motivated, because I was unjustly pressed by border guards and the Shopping Center, not giving me the opportunity to defend myself, show medical documents and the like.

15. I had 3 referrals to the brigades where my friends serve, for positions partially corresponding to my profile. In the training part, they did not pay attention to this. They said in conversation that I couldn't count on them. They send people only to 8 brigades with a dubious reputation. Some are sent to the infantry indiscriminately, some managed to get to the drone operators.

16. Drunkenness flourished on BOVP. If caught, they were left in the pit overnight. There were no official sanctions, perhaps the leadership did not want to spoil the statistics," Bezuglaya quotes the Ukrainian "heroes".