jhungary
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Yeah, when I was in Ukraine, I am training their third rotation of TDF, which mean there are between 300,000 to 400,000 TDF before I come in. If I understand that correctly, there are 200,000 trained between Late Feb to Late March, then another 100,000 trained between Late March to Late April and I was training the third batch with another 100,000.
What people don't understand is, TDF is NOT the Ukrainian Army reserve, TDF is what we called "Citizen Soldier" much like our National Guard but with a bit less training (TDF course lasted around 40 days, while our National Guardsmen were trained for at least 90 days), and most of those reserve have combat experience in Donbas but was either recently discharged from the Army or were put into reserve unit awaiting discharge. TDF is basically everyday joe went thru 40 days army training and take up arms and fight.
There are more than 900,000 reserve Ukraine can call up, and at the time I left, there are roughly 400,000 to 450,000 TDF being trained up. Its not hard at all for them for form a million army before June.
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