Training To Attack The Russians

Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Force is a military reservist component of the country’s armed forces, which emerged as a volunteer militia after the 2014 Ukraine-Russia war in Donbas. It become formally organised after the Russian invasion in February 2022.

Please click on the images for glimpses of a Territorial Defence Force combat training exercise near Bucha.

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

 

IMAGE: Another Territorial Defence Forces training exercise on the outskirts of Kharkiv. Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

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