Inside the fake village where UK troops train Ukrainians for their fight against Russia

A military training area in the UK has been turned into a fake Ukrainian village to teach volunteers how to fight more effectively in built-up areas.

British troops, along with Swedish forces, have been turning Ukrainian civilians into soldiers in just five weeks as part of Operation Interflex.

The training area, at an undisclosed location in East Anglia, has been used for more than 80 years to help prepare soldiers for various conflicts.

During the Second World War it played the role of a German-occupied village and more recently was converted to look like an Afghan village in Helmand province, complete with a marketplace.

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Many of the Ukrainian volunteers have had little or no armed forces experience before their arrival.

In the space of just over a month, they are learning essential infantry skills in and around Ukrainian pubs, petrol stations and homes, abandoned amongst rubble and broken-down vehicles.

Watch our video above to see how they are being trained to become more lethal, while increasing their survivability.

Vitali Klitschko, a former heavyweight boxing champion and the current mayor of Kyiv, earlier told Forces News how modern weapons have helped defend his city against Russian air attacks - and how Ukraine needs more.

While Kyiv itself is currently relatively peaceful, Mr Klitschko pointed out that other areas of his country were now "hell".