A small group of Ukrainian soldiers who were already in the United States before Russia’s invasion of their country are being trained to use the deadly Switchblade drones Washington is supplying to Kyiv, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
“A very small number of Ukrainians... were already here in the United States going through some professional military education,” the senior defense official said, requesting anonymity.
“We took advantage of the opportunity to pull them aside for a couple of days and provide them some training, particularly on the Switchblade (drones) that is a system that is not organic to the Ukrainian military,” he said.
The group, made up of “less than a dozen” people, “will be heading back into
Ukraine relatively soon” as originally planned, he added...
