‘The Pentagon said on Friday that the first Ukrainian battalion...

‘The Pentagon said on Friday that the first Ukrainian battalion with about 635 soldiers had completed a roughly five-week-long US course of combined arms training on the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Germany. Additional battalion-level combined arms training was already underway, it said.

The United States has announced plans to give Ukraine more than 50 of the armoured vehicles, which have a powerful gun and have been used by the US Army to carry troops around battlefields since the mid-1980s.

Moscow accused the United States of fuelling an escalation of the war and now being directly involved.

“The American warmongers... supply weapons in huge quantities, provide intelligence and participate directly in the planning of combat operations,” whined Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Putin-Nazi foreign ministry, on Friday.’