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The commander of the Donbas volunteer territorial defense battalion, Semen Semenchenko, has said that he has signed a contract on arranging the training of the battalion's soldiers and officers by mobile teams of U.S. instructors who are currently inactive military servicemen.

 “They will work under a traditional training system, as well as the system on training Navy SEALs and Delta Force,” he wrote on his page on Facebook on Sept. 22.

Semenchenko said that the training would start within ten days.