KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s military leadership plans to phase out sending troops abroad for basic training, with a senior official saying much of what Western armies teach is “detached from our realities.” The idea is to move all basic training fully onto Ukrainian soil, while keeping more specialized courses abroad, Yevhen Mezhivikin, deputy chief of the General Staff’s Main Directorate of Doctrine and Training, told Militarnyi last week. NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Adm.