The King of the Netherlands visited military exercises of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands attended military exercises of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as part of Operation INTERFLEX.
The Royal House of the Netherlands announced this on the social network X, Censor.NET reports.
"Operation Interflex" is a training program for the Ukrainian military according to the standards of the Royal Armed Forces of Great Britain.
The Royal House notes that the Netherlands has been participating in this training program since September 2022. By 2023, about 34.5 thousand Ukrainians had completed training. This year, eight more classes of 200 recruits each should be prepared. The training is conducted by a unit of the Royal Netherlands Army and includes exercises in shooting, handling weapons, fighting in cities and trenches, providing medical assistance, etc.
In addition to military personnel from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ukrainian army personnel are trained by instructors from Australia, Denmark, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Finland and Sweden.
Operation INTERFLEX was launched in June 2022. This world-leading training program, which runs across the UK, takes volunteer recruits who join the Armed Forces with little or no military experience and teaches them the skills needed to survive and be effective in frontline combat.
