Kiev no longer sends soldiers abroad for drills, the Ukrainian leader says Kiev no longer needs to send soldiers to train abroad because Ukrainian troops learn more by fighting the Russian army, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said.Since the beginning of the open conflict with Russia in February 2022, Ukraine dispatched groups of recruits to Britain, France, Germany, Poland, the US and other countries, primarily to train using Western-made armored vehicles and artillery.By 2023, “we understood that we can’t train our people there because the war [has] changed,” Zelensky told Sky News’ Yalda Hakim in an interview in Kiev aired on Tuesday. When the soldiers were returning home, they already had to be “retrained,” he said.Zelensky said that currently only Russia and Ukraine know how to fight a modern “technological” war, particularly using state-of-the-art drones, and Kiev is ready to share the knowledge. “We are inviting officers and representatives of other countries to learn here. Some of them are coming,” he said. “We are in the best shape technologically. We can be helpful to all of the world.”The technology and tactics on the battlefield evolve faster than the West makes decisions to fund Ukraine’s military, Zelensky said, urging Kiev’s backers to put more pressure on Russia.In March, Vadim Sukharevsky, the then-commander of Ukraine’s UAV forces, warned that “not a single NATO army is ready to resist the cascade of drones.” Military experts noted that the recent drone incursion in Poland exposed the lack of robust anti-UAV defenses. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Ukraine’s elite 155th Mechanized Brigade, partially trained in France, was plagued with mass desertion, with dozens of recruits reportedly going AWOL on French soil. Mikhail Drapaty, who led Ukraine’s Ground Forces at the time, said that the poor quality and low morale of the officers contributed to the unit’s problems.