"Can’t run or walk – crawl": Special Operations Forces show their special survival and training course

The first Special Operations Forces qualification course since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia is underway.

Source: Video posted by Special Operations Forces (SOF) on their social media pages; Oleksandr Kindratenko, spokesperson for the Special Operations Forces, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda

Quote from SOF: "Each candidate has their own motivation, but they have a common goal: to become a specialist in their field, an operator of the Special Operations Forces. For this, it is worth enduring all the tests."

Details: The video shows scenes of physical and psychological training.

As Oleksandr Kindratenko, the spokesperson for the SOF, explained to Ukrainska Pravda, the uniqueness of this Q-course is that it is being held during wartime (more than 10 such courses in total have been held since the beginning of the establishment of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine).

Training lasts 4 months. Active contract servicemen are recruited to join it.

Quote: "About 600 people have been enrolled in the current course. Now they are gradually weeded out as a result of weekly tests. Usually 10% make it to the end. After graduating, servicemen are guaranteed to get into SOF units, take their positions in combat groups and perform the corresponding tasks."

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