(14 Nov 2024)
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Eastern France (exact location not given) – 13 November 2024
1. Wide of military exercise involving Ukrainian and French troops
2. Wide of troops emerging from woods to “attack” other troops defending trenches
3. Ukrainian troops running for cover in a trench
4. Ukrainian troops storming a trench
5. Col. Paul (surname withheld by the French military for security reasons), a French officer involved in the training of Ukrainian troops, looking up at a drone flying over the training exercise
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Paul (surname not given), French officer involved in the training of Ukrainian troops:
“They have improved a lot. It’s quite impressive, the speed with which they have improved. Now they are able to fight, they are able to maneuver. They are able to use the different specialists and to use the different equipment they will have on the battlefield. So they are able to conduct a real maneuver and real combat at the battalion level, which is what they are doing at the moment, during this exercise.”
7. Armored personnel carrier camouflaged with branches maneuvers during exercise
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Paul (surname not given), French officer involved in the training of Ukrainian troops:
“It is training and equipment. So both training and equipment in order to provide a whole combat force, trained and equipped. And that’s why all the equipment with which they have trained during this time, these two months, they will have the same kind of equipment when they are in Ukraine and when they are on the battlefield. They will have the same APCs, the armored personnel carriers. They will have the same tanks. They will have the same anti-tank missiles.”
9. Wide of French AMX 10 RC light tank taking part in exercise
10. Various of Ukrainian troops storming trenches during exercise
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Col. Alban (surname not given), French officer involved in the training of Ukrainian troops:
“It (the new Ukrainian brigade) will go back with equipment that we’ll provide, including weaponry. So, typically, the vehicles behind you: the AMX 10 RC there; the Caesar artillery cannon there; and then the infantry vehicle over there. So they will leave with all of that, to equip their brigade. And then with everything they have learned with us here, a whole training, tactical knowledge, to be operational on the ground.”
12. Various of trench being guarded by Ukrainian troops
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Col. Alban (surname not given), French officer involved in the training of Ukrainian troops:
“We, the French army, have experience of what we call ‘Exterior Operations’ that we’ve carried out – in the former Yugoslavia, in Africa, in Afghanistan. We have this experience, experience of combat, but in the context of expeditionary forces, ‘Exterior Operations’ in our jargon. So we have that experience. But we don’t have experience of equal combat, of war between two armies, equipped with modern material. We are rediscovering that with them.”
14. Mid of Col. Paul watching training exercise
STORYLINE:
A French military task force with a festive name — “Champagne” — is wrapping up a mission that’s no party: training a whole new brigade of several thousand Ukrainian troops who will be joining the fight against Russia’s invasion armed with France-supplied tanks, artillery canons and other heavy weaponry.
The approaching return to Ukraine of the “Anne of Kyiv” brigade, after more than two months of intense military training in eastern and southern France, comes at another critical juncture in the almost three-year war.
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