Training Directorate 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine "Azov"

The Training Directorate G-7 is the key body responsible for planning, coordinating, and developing the training system for the corps’ military units and subunits. Its primary objective is to build and maintain the combat capabilities necessary to fulfill assigned missions in the face of modern threats and challenges.

G-7 ensures the implementation of advanced combat experience, the development of professional competencies among commanders and personnel, the organization of individual and collective training, and the assessment of units’ readiness to carry out combat missions.

A key focus of G-7’s activities is the organization and development of specialized training for service members, aimed at acquiring, maintaining, and improving professional competencies in military specialties. The G-7 also organizes physical training for personnel and sports events both within the corps and across all components of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, aimed at improving endurance and combat readiness.

Great attention is paid to leadership development, improving the training infrastructure, developing coordination systems, and applying modern approaches to troop training based on real combat experience. G-7—building combat capabilities through quality training, leadership, and innovation.

Key aspects of combat training:

• Maximizing personnel survivability: a trained soldier automatically responds in critical situations, correctly uses cover and concealment, and possesses tactical medical skills;
• fostering innovative and creative thinking: the modern training program encourages initiative in making unconventional decisions that enable victory over a stronger enemy;
• rapid adaptation to technological changes: the training program promptly integrates instruction on operating drones (UAVs), modern electronic warfare (EW) and electronic countermeasures (ECM) systems, and new models of Western weaponry;
• combat coordination among units: individual skills are combined into precise team coordination at the “pairs,” “trios,” and squad levels to minimize “friendly fire” and chaos in battle;
• psychological resilience and hardiness: tank drills, simulated artillery barrages, and stress tests reduce panic and prepare recruits for their first real combat encounter.

Key components of modern wartime training:

• Basic (Basic Military Training)—developing skills in marksmanship, field survival, mine safety, and movement under fire;
• team coordination—rehearsing realistic defense and offensive scenarios as part of regular units;
• specialized training—in-depth mastery of a specific specialty (artilleryman, signalman, UAV operator);
• staff training—training officers to rapidly plan operations according to NATO standards under time constraints.