translator: too soon to say what s best about the leopard 2, ukraine s tank trainer says. but the machine is good quality what is most important, my soldiers like it a lot. reporter: their training fast tracked, 12 hours a da, six days a week. compared to the polish standard, eight hours a day, five days a week. polish instructors say the ukrainians will be ready in a month. most of them have some tank skills already. the polish brigadier in charge says. they re so keen to learn, we have to hold them back. and peacetime is rare, if ever, the tank crews are racing through their training like this. it s a sign of how much they re needed at the front lines. they re being accelerated through their leopard 2 apprenticeship. poland s president who has been at the vanguard of pushing nato allies to give ukraine modern
and waiting through most of the polish president s visit, priority is getting back to the war, even if that means the training is sped up. translator: i think that the training time will be enough for us to get to grips with the technology, he says. we are lacking a lot of heavy armor like this. if we get it, it will be much better. reporter: on this training ground, perhaps more profound than tank skills honed, history in the making. the foundations of a fully-modernized nato-compatible ukrainian army being laid. but it s not going to be quick. even though it s being sped up, just the tank component alone, that new nato compatible modern army, the ukrainians say they want about 300 to 400 tanks. there are 21 tank crews getting their training that we saw here in poland.
the russian offensive. reporter: the tanks and the training only part of readying this new force for war. translator: the biggest challenge now is spare parts for these tanks. we are setting this task to the german defense industry. reporter: for the ukrainian tank crew, patiently parked up and waiting through most of the polish president s visit, priority is get back to the war, even if that means the training is sped up. i think that the training time will be enough for us to get to grips with the technology, he says. we are lacking a lot of heavy armor like this. if we get it, it will be much better. on this training ground, perhaps more profound than tank skills honed, history in the making. the foundations of a fully
important training on tanks. after just a week of training, ukrainian tank crews show off their new skills on a polish gun range. the first time the leopard ii training has been put on display. the crews pull direct from ukraine s eastern battle front. too soon to say what s best about the leopard 2, ukraine s tank trainer says, but the machine is good quality. and what is most important, my soldiers like it a lot. they re training fast-tracked. 12 hours a day, six days a week. compared to the polish standard, eight hours a day, five days a week. polish instructors say the ukrainians will be ready in a month. most of them have some tank skills already, the polish brigadier in charge says. they re so keen to learn. we have to hold them back.