Roland smith, right, and Alexander kuzmuk

The Great Britain Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Ukraine Roland smith, right, and Ukrainian minister of Defense Alexander kuzmuk, by his side, examine the English bloc-post during the labour-rent of the peacemaking operation in the course of the training "Kosatskyi Step - 2000" on Wednesday, September 20, 2000 on the ground Opuk, eastern part of the Crimea. The international training "Kosatskyi Step - 2000" with the participation of military forces of the Great Britain (strengthened company of the battalion "Comandos" of the Royal Sea fleet (130 people)), Poland (strengthened air-mobile company (70 people)) and Ukraine (the strengthened Fleet company (130 people) are carried out in the Eastern part of the Crimean peninsula from September 13 to 21. The action is aimed to settle down the armed conflict and preparation of the States-participants' sub-divisions to the peacemaking actions in the composition of the SFOR peacemaking forces. Photo by Sergey Svetlitskyi/ UNIAN