The EU is training Ukrainian soldiers - now they are going to the front

He is an instructor at a military base in Spain.

Here, the first crews for the Leopard tanks have now been fully trained.

Now the roughly fifty soldiers are ready for the front.

And with them home from Spain they get ten German Leopard tanks.

It is the first time that the EU is training soldiers and tank crews for a war raging in Europe.

- It has been intense.

We have been training Ukrainians for four weeks now, says Contreras, who wears an armband with both the EU and Ukrainian flags.

See when SVT Nyheter visited the military base in Spain.