At the start of the war, Nato soldiers learned the Ukrainians how to be a soldier. Now the roles are swapped
In a secret place in England, Ukrainian soldiers learn to become better leaders while sharing precious knowledge from the front.
A smoke grenade is thrown while a group of Ukrainian soldiers move into a building in a war-torn city.
From the house they leave, one magazine is emptied after another to protect them. The shoots are being answered from a third building at the end of the road.
Over the soldiers sound deep roar from fighter jets and the buzz of drones.
Not far away, a partition Ukrainians have ingested a trench. Above them, drones drop bombs in an attempt to retake the intricacies dug into the ground while the shoots fly off.
This could be done at the front in Ukraine. But it doesn't.
The battlefield is in a secret place in the east of England and is modelled to commemorate the front.
The blood that squirts is theater blood. The wounded soldiers with amputated limbs being driven away by drone vehicles are actors. The bombs being thrown from drones are water balloons.
In reality, it is a form of exam for Ukrainian soldiers who have been through a five-week management course under the name ‘Operation Interflex’.
"Once they have completed, they are without exception better soldiers and better leaders," British Colonel Andy Boardman, head of Interflex, said in a statement.