In this explanatory video, Alicia Alamillos, sent by El Confidencial in the Ukraine, travels to an unknown location, an hour’s drive from Lviv, in western Ukraine. This is where he trains the 103 Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces, a corps of volunteers to defend the country against the Russian invasion.
Territorial Defense is the reserve of the Army of Ukraine and is key to protecting cities before him advance in Russian. The international legion also depends on it, made up of foreign volunteers.
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Ukrainian embassies have received a veritable avalanche of calls from people interested in fighting as volunteers. Several Spaniards have already been there for days
According to unofficial figures, in just a few weeks the Army would have doubled in sizeand more than 200,000 people also enlisted in the Territorial Defense Forces, a parallel body deployed in all the country’s provinces.
The training lasts several weeks. The members of the Territorial Defense receive classes in shooting, tactical defense and first aid. The profile of volunteers who have abandoned their civilian jobs to join this military body is extremely varied. Most have no military experience, although some are veterans of the war in Donbas 2014.
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