Boris hurls a grenade and tries out rocket launcher on visit to Army base

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Boris Johnson has been pictured hurling a grenade and taking aim with a missile launcher during a trip to a British Army base.

The outgoing prime minister visited some of the 400 Ukrainian soldiers being trained in the UK this week, as Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion reaches its 150th day.

In a video shared on his official accounts, Mr Johnson – clad in full camouflage complete with tactical headphones – can be seen mingling with troops in North Yorkshire and trying out a range of weapons.

It was the PM’s second military exercise this week, coming days after he was pictured going full Top Gun in the cockpit of a Typhoon fighter jet.

The footage shows Mr Johnson overseeing training exercises in a mock urban environment.

He can also be seen pulling the pin from a dummy grenade and hurling it, getting to grips with a machine gun and taking aim with a rocket launcher.

As the camera pans over a Ukrainian flag lying next to the Union Jack, Mr Johnson says: ‘I’ve been meeting some of the 400 Ukrainian troops who are here being trained by our forces, getting ready to go and fight in Ukraine.

‘That’s part of a huge commitment we’ve made to train Ukrainian forces. We want to train about 10,000 of them over the next four months…