Inside Ukraine’s SECRET base where Brits and Americans train troops to blitz Russia
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
- AT A secret base protected by a vast woodland canopy, British ex-soldier Dan Ridley casts his eye over the latest Ukrainian recruits.
From a raised wooden platform overlooking a maze of rooms he watches them move swiftly from door to door. But so too is everything here.
The wooden huts nearby, where troops are undergoing combat medical training, have laid dormant for more than 15 years and are crumbling. It is a wonder they are still standing.
But by the end of this week, Dan, 28, and his team of instructors at Trident Defense Initiative (TDI) will have trained over 14,000 Ukrainian soldiers since the start of the war.
The Sun was yesterday given exclusive access to the British-run HQ which is located just a few miles from the frontline in Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv.
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I suspect the Ukrainians have a lot to teach the Brits and Americans!
The public civilians, yes. Military personal, no.
They both can learn from each other.
What’s funny is we trained for trench warfare and Russia in Germany in 2006 (I was a US soldier) . 2 years before bush’s speech on why Ukraine needs to join nato lol they’ve been prepping for this for over a decade
@@MJ-ip7oj No living US soldier of fighting age has fought in bunkers and trench warfare like this. Unless they have been in Ukraine. Like marines in Fallujah clearing that city. Maybe Grozny was like that in ways but that didnt involve US. Every conflict is unique you can only learn so much in training. They are best trained and prepared for sure no comparison. Takes battles to test theory and assumptions though. Its a science like anything else.
those are no longer there. And the new ones, who were captured on the street near the store, can only be taught how to surrender and save their lives
Great to see guys helping where the political class are afraid to go.
I think the government should encourage private people to go fight.
God Bless Ukraine. Love from Brazil.
There are elections in "totalitarian" Iran, but not in "democratic" Ukraine. This fact alone suggests that the Western media are all lying
Hows the floods?
@@Storm.Z.4uYeah, russian - how ARE the floods in Orsk?
@@Rocket_scientist_88how is the electricity in Kharkov going Ukraine?😂
@@JDDC-tq7qm 🤣
Didn't they make a PARADE with the "stolen" washing machines from Ukraine?
That is Hilarious! A Good One Indeed.
In Ukraine, no one has heard of washing machines.
Didn't they have a parade with 1 washing machine in Moscow?
@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 you got it wrong it was the newest British aircraft carrier - big washing machine
@@TheDrAstrov You can't be that Dumb!
Is that CIV DIV doing instructions?! ❤
Yessir
not him
I think so
I think so too
pretty sure thats him at 0:09
Please Lord protect the Ukrainean soldiers
The fundamental problem is that people dont know history
DO you?
Volhynia m@ssacre. Look it up.
what history russian MOd hisotry?
"What we learn from History is that no one learns from History" German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
Or they know a distorted history
Well It was top secret
not really
Shouldn't of named the man and said he trained 14,000 soldiers, you just put a target on his head, not smart.
These poor Ukrainians have no idea that they just being used as pawns to make money. Interesting how America news channels are giving away all the secrets so the war continues and America makes more money
Now the big reveal... this base is ACTUALLY located in Poland.
Finland.
Someland
Under the Kerch Bridge,, Shhhhh.
You are not well informed, they are on the international space station, they will parachute directly into Moscow 🤣
@CIVDIV was in that!
Respect
Good work. Stay safe.
SECRET BASE .. lets film it and put it on youtube
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We are winning!!
Lol getting trained by people who last seen trench warfare in ww2 they should be trained by people who had experience in trench warfare
Well the concepts are the same. And some of those instructors were volunteers that served on the front.
This is great for Ukraine's young recruits.
Are you talking about the 650 thousand Ukrainians who escaped from compulsory military service with which they are trying to enlist them against their will?
Once the foreign fighters experience real trench warfare, they get the out of there real fast.
Because modern warfare is not meant to be fought in trenches anymore. Thats why it has such a huge fatallity both for ukrainians and russians. They are using old soviet times tactics mixed with modern high tech equipments. Thats why ukraine requires nato training and understanding
Russia: writing this down
Poland 1939, Finland 1939-40, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1940, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014, Ukraine 2022.
Aren't Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania "Axis countries"?
"Invaded by ork" ?
That a first everyone thought only Germany invented Poland in 1939
@@tobiasgriffinRussia and Germany invaded Poland together then Germany turned against Russia
Britain 2024
Then why are u exposing it.... After one nor two days it will be a raining shell🤣🤣
You have no clue how big Ukraine is lol. How dumb.
Please don't expose the location to Russia
They’re nothing that can be geolocated.
British should never go too war ,rather go with soccer u be safer😎
@@gleestruwe1818 you havnt watched a lot of british football matches, have you??
The woods of Western Ukraine.
Russian soldiers will find it out.
Excellent news coverage.
Informative and honest!!
Any kind of training is better than no training at all. Good idea to choice trainees who know how too used a firearm properly and add more knowledge to what they already know. Trained than trained more. When you think you are ready. You need to trained harder. Then before.
Putin watched call of duty so much and decided to play it in real time.
He obviously didn't play it for long.
@@user-ze7vb5cx3y If you could buy items from other players that would be Ukraine 🤣
A bit like Western volunteers who thought they were playing paintball against "poorly armed orcs" or veterans of the desert war against poorly armed Bedouins who had never faced a real army. Dead, captured, the luckiest ones ran away
@@huskywr240 And is not a secret why the "volunteers" number was over 10k in the beginning, just some months and less than 3k remained. Probably they didn't know that was a real war 🤣
@@francescozambaldi8212 Many of them have bought Western propaganda without informing themselves better first, it is a US proxy war in which Ukrainians die and weapons manufacturers make money. Some have good intentions but they are placed at the disposal of a two-bit dictator put in power by the CIA, the usual power games of the rich in which the poor die
British and American soldiers... conquerors of Taliban😂😂😂😂
What can they teach anybody? How to flee from Taliban🤣🤣🤣
Russia didn't do well either m8 and in this war Ukraine would be the insurgents and they have far better weapons and training
@@FOGSmokebeer
So it's settled.
The Taliban should rule the USA and Russia.
Let your women know that they have to wear hijab from tomorrow.
@@FOGSmokebeer Ukraine will stand as long as the western supply going on. It won't last forever.
BRICS is expanding. The US dollar and the euro are weakening.
China's economy is developing, and it is well known that the China's and Russia's economies are, in fact, one common economy, because China's economy is completely dependent on Russian gas.
China is an industrial country. And every industry needs a huge amount of electricity. The cheapest electricity is produced from gas.
The West won't be able to carry on this war for as long as Russia. And Russia can keep this war on forever, as long as the West and the entire world keep on buying Chinese production.
@@alexrz4196 Dream on m8
@@FOGSmokebeer 🤘😜🤘
Top secret base but you got it on RUclips, Al technology can find the exact location
The strongest army (ork) defeated by toys 🤣
defeated when? pls stop watching propaganda and counteroffensives trailers 🤣
When will you people understand this is a war it is not just for your entertainment playtime is over ,stop putting up cartoon faces when this is so serious
@@James-kv6kb When you understand that this war was caused by the USA, starting from the 2014 coup d'état organized by the CIA, perhaps you will stop sending weapons and supporting those who do it for the interests of those who produce them and the USA
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Slava Ukraine 💪
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Get lost ukitroll BOT
@@dkrawk8309 🤣🤣🤣
Go Vlodymyr, go! Slava Ukrainini!
I wouldn't trust any secrets with the Sun.
No disrespect to the British Army but the majority of the troops have only ever fought Pashtuns with rusty AK-47 on the back of camels. The ukraine-russia war is a different kind of beast. You are fighting a global superpower. It is a slaugherfest for Ukraine
British soldiers are among the best trained in the world. Completely disagree, it's also pretty safe to suggest that most combat in recent times has been fought against rusty AK's, even the Russians.
Zalensky doesn't care, he's making plenty of money from it and flying all over the world playing the celebrity
I wish I had your ignorance, is it truly bliss as they say?
“Global superpower”? Who? The Americans? The Chinese? Those are the only two global superpowers right now. The russian federation has never been one, but the Soviet Union absolutely was, no doubt about that… and most of the reason they were was because they had the smarts and toughness of Ukraine. They’ll never get that back, no matter how hard they try.
Thinking you are 'a global superpower' is a big part of the problem.
What can americans and brits teach ukrainians? Ukrainian has a lot of better experienced vets of modern warfare than westerners lmao
Jerome Starkey’s THE MAN !!! 👍. Most knowledgeable defense journalist around! 👑 👑 👑
you need to trained the population to fight as well as the soldiers, trained them as medics which is the main problem, how to rescue and get out of the way or shoot in case they are in mortal danger, all the soldiers should be cross trained on every single field from engineers to explosives, command and control, drone operators, trench warfare, and everything else, especially in urban warfare. as those brits are doing
Legends!
Well don't start conflicts on someone else's border perhaps? And British troops should not be there in the first place.
You gunna stop em Rambo ?
Putin started the war. Why British troops shouldnt help there to defend?
Why shouldn’t British troops be there? If Ukraine invited them, then they have every right to be there.
No, the russians are the ones who shouldn’t be in Ukraine. They are the disgraced ones, they invaded a peaceful neighbor and Ukrains has been embarrassing them since May 2022. 😊
Where? Where do you think they are? You should keep your infantile ideas to yourself. Let men deal with the problems that require men.
Idiots not required.
SLAVA UKRAINI!!!!!!!
Heyrojiv svalka
Heroyam slava!! 🇺🇦🫡
You look like parrots with this Slava-Slava ua-ua 🤣
@@huskywr240 man, don't insult parrots!!!
@@dkrawk8309 🤣
Good old brits ! Leaders of the free world
....being gay was illegal all the way till the 90s...wtf you talking about 😂
You want to read the bible
Let them go fight in in the Frontlines lol
You asked for money and weapons and said that you would defeat Russia in 2022. You asked for money and weapons in 2023 and said that you would attack Russia. You said that the Russian army cannot fight, its weapons and tanks are old, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers died, there are no Russian soldiers to fight. You said that we need money and weapons for defense in 2024, otherwise the Russians will defeat us. It's been 3 years, but you want to recruit people under the age of 28. If you don't have soldiers, you can't win a war with money and weapons. War is won by volunteer soldiers who fight honorably for their country. It is won by the army and the people who respect their leaders. I feel sorry for the soldiers who had to fight and die because they were poor and old while the rich and women left the country. You want NATO soldiers because you can't find men to fight. If Ukraine cares about democracy, you will not delete this comment.
@@unsalbulent Russians have NEVER fought honorably, they ALWAYS target civilians! They ALWAYS commit war crimes!
There's a Reckoning Coming!
Russian Military is GONE after this War!
@@unsalbulent But you're really bad, you can't wake them up from their propaganda, leave them poor things to shout UA-UA, SLAVA-SLAVA 🤣, let them continue to support their governments to send weapons and exhort the Ukrainians to win instead of making peace, so much to die it's the Ukrainians, not them. Now they want to give the green light to use Western weapons directly on Russia, it's a shame that due to exaggeration some of the atomic bombs will be launched and many greetings to the Ukrainians. I just hope that when we vote for the European Parliament the people vote well and not those who continue to send weapons. If I had known that they would have sent weapons I would never have voted for those who are now in our government. Consider that stupid Frenchman who's raving about sending soldiers, we've already told him to shut up and he's a poor idiot. This war began in 2014 with the CIA coup and the massacres of civilians in Donbass, they should have been put on trial, but NATO, the EU and the UN remained silent since there were American interests in Ukraine behind it, they betrayed the previous agreements sanctioned by Angela Merkel according to which NATO and the USA had to stay out of Ukraine
NATO needs to send instructors into Ukraine again to train, but theses guys are doing an amazing job until then. NATO has a mass amount of air dense protections systems, set those up and train UKR troops underneath them. It's not that difficult.
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I wonder how long that cardboard cut out in the far back left will be holding that tv for? Its arms must be burnt out by now.
You shouldn’t be surprised that when you teach people about a war in which you yourself did not participate, you should expect positive results.
NATO Forces should ANNEX Russia to Protect the 200,000 Plus Ukrainian Speaking People Forced into Russia 😀😀
Wht bot nato is nothing
Ha ha ha ha.that will never happen
😂🤣😅😆They would have done this long ago if they could. Now they have found fools who want to destroy an entire country instead of NATO
@@TheDrAstrovAt this point, with russia’s crippled and weakened military, it would be very easy for NATO to do. Even before the Ukraine war, it would have been easy. But why bother? Most of russia is a third world country. Yes, they have natural resources, but most of that will be given back to the Buryatians when the RF breaks apart next year.
You do realise if you put up laugh faces it diminishes your intelligence in the eye of the reader especially when this is not a play thing
Slava Ukraine ❤ From Slovakia
Wtf is u talking about??? Why the ef would Putin go to any country??????
It's time now for England to give Northern Ireland back to Ireland !
What Brits and Americans can teach Ukrainian? Where did they get experience?
Brits and Americans training Ukrainians ... how to lose the war!
The Sun DISNEY News !!!😅😅😅
Russia Bot.
@@user-ze7vb5cx3yno just some very childish Google sheep from gen S
General Wenck's army is marching towards Berlin!
Not a secret if you’re posting it online
There is no such thing as an Article 5 "trigger". There are only harmful acts against a nation that qualify as grounds for that nation to ask other NATO members for help in defense. The other NATO members need not take action if reasonable people disagree about whether the acts are serious enough to justify an Article 5 response or if the acts are not ongoing and it is reasonable to ignore them for the sake of avoiding greater bloodshed in a war.
You good
0:09 IS THAT CIVDIV?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Clown thinks Americans are some kind of super soldiers 🤣🤣🤣
They are the most powerful military
They are compared to the Clueless Russians and Ukranians
At least better than Russians.
@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 bahahahahahaha, than why not go in and bring freedom and democracy to nahtzi Ukraine? 🤣
@@760HorsePowerthere is no such thing as “nahtzi Ukraine”. The russians are behaving exactly as the Germans did in the 1930s. You russians are the bad guys here, don’t forget it Ivan.
Now up the game and bring Vietnamese farmers to train them
Tem muitos brasileiros na Ucrânia.
So are they going to train the prisoners released under the new scheme.
Don't worry about it kid, let the big boys sort it out.
You stick to your X Box.
@user-ze7vb5cx3y you go girl.
@@user-ze7vb5cx3y You are so mad about this comment that you decided to insult instead of aknowledge that ukros are recruting convicts exactly the same like Wagners did 🤣
So there training the ukranians on how to retreat under fire. or olympic 100m in reverse. 3 weeks training? , is square bashing and how to get to the mess.
“Top Secret”
See postings being Blocked again
A single square of toilet paper is worth more than a ruble.😂
The UK's national debt reached £2.54 trillion in 2023.
@@poli946 RUSSIAN GDP GROWING .... SMOKE & MIRRORS 😀 Russian GDP is Up as Putin is Spending the Money on Military Equipment which is Turned into Scrap Metal in Ukraine ...There is No Profit or Return on this Money and Eventually Putin will Run Out of Cash Reserves . Only UNEDUCATED Russians think that this is Good for the Russian Economy REALITY . Russian ROUBLE has Collapsed and the Cost of Imports is Up Military Sales have Collapsed , Russia Failed to Sign a Single Contract in DUBAI in November 2023 GAZPROM announced that Production has Fallen to 1970 s / USSR Levels Interest Rate at 16 Percent and Inflation Skyrocketing along with Fuel Restrictions Russian Oil Exports Down as a result of OPEC Cuts and a Price Cap of $60. and India No Longer recieving Russian Oil Recent Ukrainian Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries have Affected 15 Percent of Russian Income and most likely will Not get Western Parts to restore Refineries " Everything According to Plan " The Entire World is Laughing at Putin as the Russian Economy Collapses .......Again 😀😀
@@user-ek6sr4gq1m I don't understand your delirium, are you high on methamphetamine?
@@poli946 Hora Putain! ❤🇸🇪🇫🇷
Better than amerikan dollar, cost more to print than it worth
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Imo, training others to fight the wests war against Russia is not enough. When Boris Johnson flew on behalf of USA and Uk, to Ukraine and told Zelensky not to continue the preliminary peace negotiations with Putin, THAT is when uk and USA boys should have been conscripted for this war. You don’t encourage your friend to die while you stand behind a wall, shouting encouragement and throwing money and instructions at him. You stand alongside him in battle.
How much get you payed for those troll comments?
Only the poor idiots who shout SLAVA-SLAVA and buy the propaganda have not understood that it is a war provoked by the USA to weaken Russia, because they want a weak Europe at their command, they would like to command the whole world, they even went to imposed by the Chinese for Taiwan and they have imposed sanctions, they are shooting themselves in the foot. It is a proxy war of the USA in which however the Ukrainians die and as always the American arms lobbies who have always pressured their politicians for this and pay for the elections make money
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 Shut up troll-bot-Ukrainian of the Slava-Slava ua-ua 🤣😜
@@huskywr240 Da, Ivan.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 No my dear Ukrainian bot, you have to say "ciao" to me and there are no Ivans in my area, but in a few days we will vote in the European elections and you could have a nasty surprise about sending weapons, which the majority of the people don't want
Those British & Americans signed their death warrant
The training should happen in Ukraine under war conditions. Yes there is a possibility that the Russians send missiles but its unlikely that they hit when there is a proper behaivior, camouflage etc. Look how big Ukraine is! At the frontlines there is also a risk so better to get used to that straight away. We in the West should finally put away our cowardness and send instructors instead of taking the Ukrainiens to our countries.
Why are they getting training from soldiers who just fought peasants with ak47? While they have vets who fought actual war for two years
The "fundamental problem is that Russia does not respect its neighbors or their rights as sovereign states".
Wtf.
That is exactly what Russia does.
It's the west who make brother nations turn on each other
It’s a secret base but let’s give up the man’s name who runs it aye🤷🏼
Brilliant thank you 🙏 British and American 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 for helping Ukraine 🇺🇦 god bless 💛💙💛💙🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🤞🤞🤞💪💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Ukraine is giving their today, for our tomorrow
Black rocks tomorrow
@@Yako223
Hey where is the Tsyklon, under the sea, in an octopus’s garden?
ruzzians want to live in the Tsyklon submarine?
But we were told that The French were going there to train Ukrainians lol alil late I suppose
Waiting for one more article about Putin Cancer from SUN.
Why NATO don’t send troops to fight against russians? Ukraine need some help, we are defending Europe, why you just stand there and waiting for Russia to come to your house?
Nuclear War...you really want that?
@@pairedsoles2822
Again with this stupid rhetoric
Wow a secret wooden base. I'm sure Russia is scared
Well someone with the mentality of gen S wouldn't understand
@@James-kv6kb Yes, probably that "someone" that thinks using wood for a base is a good idea
@@francescozambaldi8212 ok you're much smarter than me you obviously played video games and know everything alright goodnight.
@@francescozambaldi8212 by the way there's no such thing as generation s it stands for stupid lol
@@James-kv6kb When you can't even answer and you can only insult.... so sad 14yo behavior
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I hope a consortium of countries put together a major reward for the arrest of Vladimir Putin and his delivery to The Hague. Who does that terrorist know among his security detail that wouldn't want a $50 million pay-off and a passport to live in one of the Caribbean islands? Offer the reward and he'll never sleep again.
Crimea is getting further and further away for Ukraine every day
Has it detached from the main land?
@@whodaFru4551 no the spearhead travels on un stopeed
😂 lol . Getting trained by people that have not seen trench warfare in decades is crazy.
It’s too secret base
😂
They learn something from each other
It's Urban warfare not trench warfare there's a difference.....
@@rebelxx4318 lol 🤣 . It's called a fab bomb . Once Russia continue to use it. It won't be urban anything.
The Sun thinks their average viewer is 12 or American lol.
If they thought they were Russian they would have used vodka bottles and pictures!! "Lol"
"American lol"?
Big Drama...Laughable.
Russia Bot.
Slava Ukraine!
You asked for money and weapons and said that you would defeat Russia in 2022. You asked for money and weapons in 2023 and said that you would attack Russia. You said that the Russian army cannot fight, its weapons and tanks are old, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers died, there are no Russian soldiers to fight. You said that we need money and weapons for defense in 2024, otherwise the Russians will defeat us. It's been 3 years, but you want to recruit people under the age of 28. If you don't have soldiers, you can't win a war with money and weapons. War is won by volunteer soldiers who fight honorably for their country. It is won by the army and the people who respect their leaders. I feel sorry for the soldiers who had to fight and die because they were poor and old while the rich and women left the country. You want NATO soldiers because you can't find men to fight. If Ukraine cares about democracy, you will not delete this comment.
Da Ivan.
Civ Div featured in a "the sun" video!? or civ div look-a-like lol, awful coincidental if not him lol
ayy it doobie the man himself
istg its gotta be him lol
Getting training from British and American troops that have zero real war experience at all. Because none have fought in a real war like in Ukraine. If the Ukrainians wanted to be well trained at trench warfare they should be getting frontline Ukrainian soldiers to train them so they have a chance to survive a little longer.
You sure about that Ivan? The US has fought in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq… the British as well. The US and UK have some of the best military doctrine in the world. Ukraine will certainly add a tremendous experience base to NATO when they join, but the soldiers being trained will benefit greatly from this.
Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop had signed the" n`azi-Soviet Pact ".?
The Franco-German Declaration (Declaration of Bonnet-Ribbentrop, Bonnet-Ribbentrop Pact, Franco-German Agreement) is a declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the Foreign Ministers of France and Germany J. Bonnet and I. Ribbentrop.
Non aggression treaty, natsee boy... Nothing more.. USSR was just taking care of it's own interest.. Expanding territory..
No different from the other colonizers i.e. brit's and French..
Brit's and French on the other hand kept letting your fuhrer off the hook and enabled him.. I bet you have selective amnesia and you don't remember.. You only remember the molotov ribbentrop part, natsee boy..
You have to find fault with the USSR and russia any way possible..
That's the telltale sign of a neo-natsee...
Before that, there was the Munich Agreement, when Europe surrendered Czechoslovakia, and even earlier, Poland kissed Hitler on the gums until he deceived them
Agree UK, US, in particular urgently NEED to send trainers in Ukraine, it is almost nightmare logistics to train large scale Ukraine military in foreign soil! USA
Yes agree. No sense to train abroad.
Need to trained volunteers from friendly or allies country to fight as volunteers. Need trainees with military or civilians w weapon training already. This would move training along faster.
Slava Ukraini
Heyrojiv svalka
its not in Ukraine :)
Hmm! There's no secret about that location because I was there just last week.
Directed by Sun Peckinpah
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good training
What's Russia done to us? Apart from winning ww2 for us of course...
First that was not Russia in ww2 but the Soviet Union. Second they had never won without the support of the Western allies. Thats basic history which you obviously dont know.
Hahahahaha😂😂😂
Hahahahahahahahaha