Japan will join the number of countries, not only assisting Ukraine with the supply of arms and equipment, but also the training of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The country's government plans to send military instructors to train Ukrainian sappers. This is reported by the Japanese press, citing military sources..
Japan plans to unite with Cambodia and jointly launch a sapper training program for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The thing is, that the Japanese military is currently assisting in demining the territory of Cambodia and have extensive experience of working together. The Cambodians themselves have long been engaged in mine clearance of ammunition left over from numerous wars and are ready to train the Ukrainian military in this. Besides, the Japanese intend to provide Kyiv with all the equipment necessary to search for mines, etc..
The planned training program will be divided into two stages. At the first Ukrainian military will be delivered to Phnom Penh, where Cambodian and Japanese military instructors will begin to train them in combat engineering at the Cambodian Mine Action Center (Cambodia Mine Action Center). Total will go to the country 15 a member of the Armed Forces. In the second stage, scheduled to start in April, Cambodia and Japan to send their instructors to Poland, where they will join the European Training Mission. At the same time, Japan will transfer mine detectors and other sapper equipment to Ukraine..
Cambodian demining experts are considered among the best in the world, demining program operates in a country with 1992 of the year. During this time, instructors from the United States were engaged in the training of sappers in Cambodia., Russia, China, Canada, experts from the UN peacekeeping forces. The involvement of Cambodian military instructors in the training of the Ukrainian military was announced in November this year after the meeting of Prime Minister Hun Sen with US leaders., Canada and the European Union on the sidelines of the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
