THREE UKRAINIAN squaddies, clutching Soviet-made AKM attack rifles, creep stealthily alongside zig-zagging trenches. Within the distance, enemy squaddies are shifting within the woods. Gunfire crackles around the undeniable. Plumes of smoke upward push into the chilly air. Tiny drones hover overhead. It’s an all-too acquainted scene from a conflict that drags on alongside Europe’s japanese fringe. With the exception of that this simulation is going down at an undisclosed location in japanese France, the place its military is enjoying the enemy and coaching over 2,000 Ukrainian squaddies to shape the spine of a combined-arms brigade able for deployment on the entrance.
