Kiev no longer sends soldiers abroad for drills, the Ukrainian leader says Kiev no longer needs to send soldiers to train abroad because Ukrainian troops learn more by fighting the Russian army, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said. Since the beginning of the open conflict with Russia in February 2022, Ukraine dispatched groups of recruits to Britain, France, Germany, Poland, the US and other countries, primarily to train using Western-made armored vehicles and artillery. By 2023, “we