Hostile Environments Awareness Training in Ukraine
We have been running Hostile Environments Awareness Training in Ukraine since late 2019, with a team leaving Kyiv in February of this year. However, we have had teams back in Ukraine running HEAT courses three times since then, the most recent finishing in early December.
The content of our more typical HEAT courses [details here] were adapted to meet each specific client group’s needs, but also to reflect the current context of the war which changed and continues to change. Providing a synthetic environment in which people can safely rehearse their responses is what we do, but adaptions were required, not just because of the weather.
Hostile environments awareness training in the snow, taken in Kyiv, Ukraine in December 2022.
If 80% of war or war reporting is logistics, then you’ll understand that this has been a large part of each of these trips. Getting our team, and equipment, into and out of Ukraine presented some challenges, and the attributes of a good...