NATO’s command for coordinating military support to Ukraine has now overseen the training of more than 59,000 Ukrainian personnel and grown to 31 nations in around eighteen months of operation, a senior NATO military official has said.
On the sidelines of the NATO Defence Ministers’ meeting, the UK Defence Journal was told that the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine command, known as NSATU, was now “a fully functioning organisation” with more than 300 personnel from 31 nations working around the clock alongside embedded Ukrainian liaison officers in what the official called “a really very close partnership”.
The official said Japan had officially joined the previous month, becoming the third NATO partner nation alongside Australia and New Zealand, a step the official said underscored a wider truth that support to Ukraine “extends well beyond the alliance”, with such partners deeply committed to Ukraine’s defence and to the stability of the Euro-Atlantic area.
On training specifically, the official said that since NSATU was stood up more than 59,000 Ukrainian personnel had been trained through its coordinated programmes, delivered by 34 nations across more than 1,800 courses, with the command having helped consolidate training from over 200 locations down to fewer than 60 to improve efficiency and standardisation, covering everything from basic recruit training to brigade-level leadership, combat medic training and specialised weapon instruction.
The command acted as the central hub connecting Ukrainian demand with allied support, the official said, providing Kyiv with a single interface to coordinate logistics, supply, training and capability development, and had run five iterations of its Operational Force Development Framework, the most recent drawing nearly 800 participants from 28 nations, including almost 90 general officers and senior political leaders.
The official was emphatic that the effort was in the allies’ own interest, saying support to Ukraine was “not charity” but a matter of collective security in which “the cost of not supporting Ukraine now would be far higher later”, and pledging that the command and its partners would keep working to translate Ukraine’s requirements into concrete capabilities until a durable peace was achieved.
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Britain’s Op Orbital (Dec 2014-Feb 2022) trained 22,000 Ukrainians in their own country.
Britain’s Op Interflex has trained 63,000 including 11,000 UKR instructors since July 2022 in the UK – some other nations provide staff
So I am puzzled at the figures of ‘more than 59,000’ by 31 NATO nations. BTW, which single NATO nation isn’t doing this?
Is there a separate NATO mission in addition to INTERFLEX? I know INTERFLEX includes Aussie and Kiwi training teams.
Not a NATO one, but there are national ones.
I’d guess that it probably starts with H and rhymes with ungary.
Failing that Iceland but Iceland generally at least tries to lean in.
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Hi Dern – hopefully, not this one
Ukraine is winning the drone war through rapid innovation, mass production, and smart tactics.
Mainstream media and OSINT reports show that Ukraine has turned the battlefield into a high-tech “kill zone” where drones cause up to 80 per cent of all enemy casualties. By using cheap FPV drones, Ukraine has successfully stopped massive Russian tank and troop attacks. Ukrainian forces have used drone-heavy tactics to shatter major Russian mechanized assaults across multiple frontline sectors. Because persistent aerial surveillance makes the battlefield transparent, Russian forces are increasingly abandoning heavy tanks for smaller, faster vehicles. Or possibly because they have very few tanks or APC’s left. Here are some recent examples:-
The Sloviansk Sector (16 June 2026): This area saw recent Russian breakthrough attempts thwarted. Advancing in two columns from Platonivka and Siversk, Russian troops deployed a tank, three infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and 28 motorcycles. The Apachi Unmanned Systems Battalion and the 81st Separate Airborne Brigade used coordinated drone strikes to completely freeze the advance in its tracks, destroying the column before it reached the first line of defence
Mala Tokmachka, Zaporizhzhia (16 June 2026): Russian commanders attempted a brazen daylight assault using over 30 motorcycles and a dozen quad bikes modified with portable EW jammers and mine shields. The 118th Separate Mechanized Brigade intercepted the columns on the approaches to the settlement, using FPV drones to easily bypass the jammers and destroy more than two dozen vehicles
The Pokrovsk Front (11–12 January 2026): In a major winter engagement, drone operators from the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade detected a Russian armoured column moving undercover before sunrise just 6–7 km south of the line of contact. Precision drone strikes hit the vehicles and infantry immediately, disrupting the advance toward the city. Following this, on 11 March 2026, the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade used FPV drones to hunt down and destroy hidden Russian tanks and drone supply depots on the city’s outskirts
Rear Supply Lines (Ongoing through Spring 2026): Using AI-equipped drones, Ukraine has locked down major logistics corridors like the Mariupol-Melitopol Route. Open-source analysis has confirmed the destruction of over 150 military supply vehicles, forcing Russia to shorten its convoys to prevent further massive losses from continuous aerial strikes.
The British military must quickly change how it trains and buys gear to survive this new era. The MoD needs to ditch slow, costly conventional arms buying and build cheap drones in massive numbers. British troops must also learn to fight under constant eye-in-the-sky watch by adding drone jamming and spoofing tools to every single combat unit. Strategic adjustments must involve incorporating autonomous platforms into defence structures, while prioritizing electronic countermeasure resilience across units.
I like how it highlights NATO’s role but realistically who has done the bulk of this – maybe half a dozen countries (inc some good’uns like Australia and NZ?) and 25+ or so hsngers on. UK can hold its head high here – did it right from 2014.