Britain’s King Charles III on Monday went to view Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in trench warfare in southwest England, as Russia’s large-scale invasion of its western neighbour nears the one-year mark.
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British forces announced last week that they had reached a target to train 10,000 Ukrainian troops in six months, giving often inexperienced soldiers skills they can use on the front line. Charles exchanged a traditional Maori greeting with one of the troops involved, who comes from New Zealand. Harris said he and Charles had talked about the fact that in Ukraine “they’ve returned to trench warfare”, a type of fighting most synonymous with World War I more than a century ago.
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