Hundreds of foreign soldiers to help train Ukrainian troops in Germany -general

Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow, Commander of the German units multinational corps and basic military organization of the German army, speaks during a Reuters interview at the von-Hardenberg barracks in Strausberg, Germany February 22, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

STRAUSBERG, Germany (Reuters) - German military instructors teaching some 1,000 Ukrainian troops how to use Western tanks and other arms will soon be reinforced by several hundred specialists from other countries, the head of the Special Training Command said on Wednesday.

"We are talking about some 30-50 troops from Norway and several hundred from the Netherlands," Lieutenant-General Andreas Marlow told Reuters in an interview at his headquarters in the town of Strausberg near Berlin, adding he was aiming for further contributions from other nations.