Donetsk, Feb 1 - DAN. Four Ukrainian special operations group have been deployed to the Gorlovka area, Donetsk People’s Republic People’s Militia deputy commander Eduard Basurin said on Tuesday.

“Four sabotage and reconnaissance groups, 12 to 14 strong each, arrived at 95th Air Assault Brigade on the Gorlovka axis,” Basurin said. “These groups have completed urban warfare drills at 184th Training Centre in the Lvov region. They had British instructors from the Orbital training mission.”

The UK instructors at the Lvov region centre have begun a weeklong course for Ukrainian servicemen in the use of anti-tank missile systems NLAW, he added.

Earlier, instructors from U.S. private military companies including Academi (formerly Blackwater) were spotted in a mercenaries camp in Ukraine’s Sumy region.*jk