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The instructing staff are very experienced and helpful, quantifying their teaching through practical exercises and scenarios.

Everything is truly at a very high level — very well organized, informative, and professionally delivered.

From beginning to end the information was delivered in great detail, with practical exercises alongside it. The drill on working during a drone attack was very realistic and showed clearly how to behave in those conditions.

The training is very dense and intense, but useful. Definitely worth two full days of my life.

Great trainers and useful practical work reinforcing the theory.

If you are covering the war in Ukraine as a journalist, that is exactly the training that you need.

Realistic simulations, with the chance to run scenarios several times even in a one-day course. The instructors gave us a lot that was new, in both the practical and the theoretical parts. Useful — I recommend it.

The training is top class, though it seems to need more than two days. The drone simulation was especially good — nobody else on the tactical medicine market does that — but I would want even more drills and simulations.

Overall I liked it a great deal. You could see how many questions colleagues had about drones, and that more training like this is needed. The drone-threat specialists were excellent — they know it all in theory and from their own experience. I would happily take this training again.

Grateful for the chance not just to get the theory but to lock it in with practice. No other training I have been to focused so heavily on practical skills.

We held an event for anti-corruption journalists and activists with different levels of security knowledge. Katerina handled the task perfectly: she provided participants with a clear, practical mechanism for recognizing attacks and step-by-step guidance on what to do in such cases.

A must-have in kill-zone literacy. Feel for yourself what it is to try to outrun an FPV in body armour, then think about alternative ways of anticipating that situation — though here they have thought about it for you.

It helped me clear my head a bit and realize that just because nothing happened on previous trips doesn't mean there's no danger in traveling to a conflict zone

Calmly working through the procedures for unusual and crisis situations that could occur builds resilience to unexpected events. Calmly defining risks and responses strengthens the organisation.

An engaging training, excellently prepared on substance, with a plus for making space and time for discussion with participants.

This was an important training for an organisation under constant hybrid attack and expecting possible physical attacks. I recommend it to organisations that are not afraid to think about escalation and risk, and prepare for them in advance.

A very well organised lecture with well-matched practical exercises.

Excellent — very useful knowledge and skills. Thank you to the organisers.

I liked the drone section most, since it is the live problem when working in dangerous areas right now. The simulation made the sequence of actions much clearer — in real conditions there is no time to analyse like that.

It is valuable that trainings like this are run for the civic sector and activists, because public activists and LGBTI+ people are more often targeted by cyberbullying, harassment and intimidation. Sincere thanks to the trainers for their effort and knowledge.