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The Mozart Group was established during the war by ex-U.S. commander Colonel Andrew Milburn with a group of Western veterans to train Ukrainians to fight.
now you re right, it doesn t mean that war is stopped already. milburn agrees. the ukrainians still need a great deal. they need drones, right. they need drones with a range longer than the dj-1. they need secure radios. those are basic things. they need medical equipment. even upgrading the basic equipment they already have could make a big difference, he says. a lot of times they are coordinating by cellphone or by just, you know, kind of regular motorola radios, which can be intercepted, geolocated, jammed. anyone in any western military would be astounded. reporter: but weapons and equipment are not the only thing. training, he says, is key. they like medical training. evidence of that if you talk to ukrainian medics, there are horror stories out there. so injuries that would be easy survivable in iraq or
afghanistan by uk or u.s. soldiers, ukrainians are dying from here. reporter: milburn is proud of his time in uniform. he is proud to be a marine. but there is something purer about this fight, he says, than the others he has fought. but, frankly, serving in iraq and afghanistan, especially afghanistan after the debacle back in, you know, august, there is always a kind of moral ambivalence. there is a feeling of being an invading army, right. even at the sfbeginning of thos don flikts when we thought our causes are good. there was always that dissonance between the idealism that pulled you into the military and what you found yourself doing. here there is no such thing. you have one sovereign nation being invaded by another. it is evil, good versus evil. this time i feel very squarely on the side of good. and our thanks to cnn producer, for help with that