Patrol exercise for international observers

Formed of the training audience, the four foot patrol teams had to hold their ground in various preset situations along the close to 20-kilometer distance. Among others, they manned an observation post, gathered information from the local population, attempted to pass through an illegal checkpoint, and while being continuously harassed by the local media, they were tasked with providing medical care to a person seriously injured in a mine explosion, who had been collecting pieces of unexploded ordnance because according to widespread fake news, one can hand them in to the UN troops in exchange for money.

The activity of the patrol teams was being observed by instructors from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece and Serbia, as well as by another three Hungarian ones. Nineteen out of the 30 participants of the three-week course organized by the HDF Military Training Centre were delegated from abroad (Algeria, Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, the United States, Egypt, France, India, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia and Türkiye), while Hungary is represented at the observer course by nine soldiers and two policemen.