"When Russian tank columns came thundering over Ukraine's borders in February 2022, much of the world braced for the country's immediate collapse. Kyiv had been taking steps to bring its combat forces up to NATO standards, but the invasion left that work unfinished. International media ran bleak photos of civilians and teenagers training with cardboard Kalashnikov rifles. Western officials, aware of Moscow's plan to take the country in three days, feared Kyiv's government would not last the week."
"The collapse never came. Three years later, Ukraine has not only survived - it is now training NATO soldiers. On Thursday, Poland signed a new mutual exchange agreement that will see its troops learn from Kyiv's forces how to fight a new kind of war: a drone war. Though there have been efforts within NATO to draw lessons from the Ukraine war and even learn from Ukrainian troops, the memorandum, signed by the Polish and Ukrainian defense ministers, marks a shift."
Poland and Ukraine signed a mutual exchange memorandum to have Ukrainian forces train Polish troops specifically in drone warfare. Ukraine repelled a 2022 Russian invasion and has since gained extensive combat experience and practical use of Western equipment. NATO has been learning from Ukrainian tactics and maintains a joint facility in Poland to glean wartime lessons. The new agreement formalizes direct training ties and signals explicit recognition of Ukraine's operational expertise, production capabilities, and innovations in modern, sustainable approaches to fighting, particularly in the use and deployment of drones and other Western-sourced systems.
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