< p _ngcontent-sc86="" class="news-annotation">All countries of the European Union agreed to create a training mission for the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The consensus was reached during an informal meeting of EU defense ministers.
Reznikov took part in the discussion
Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy and Security Affairs, spoke about this. According to him, the EU defense ministers have agreed to start the work necessary to create an EU military assistance mission to Ukraine.
There are many training initiatives in development, but the need is huge. We must ensure that these efforts are coherent. And I can say that all Member States have clearly agreed to launch the necessary work to define the parameters of the EU military support mission for Ukraine,” Borrell said.
Josep Borrell stressed that the ministerial meeting was informal, from -for which there is no official decision to launch the mission. At the same time, he stressed that there is a decision to start preparatory work to create a mission. Borrell also explained what preparatory work entails.
“The preparatory work includes contacts with the Ukrainians on the one hand and the definition of legal and operational parameters on the other hand, in order to define the concept of crisis management, which can lead to a solution. But it is obviously clear that we must be fast and ambitious,” he said.< /p>
It should be noted that the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov took part in the discussion.
The European Union plans to organize a training mission for Ukrainian soldiers
- Bloomberg previously reported that The European Union may offer the Armed Forces of Ukraine the training of soldiers as part of a new military training mission.
- The corresponding initiative was proposed by the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
- Bloomberg notes that now the Armed Forces of Ukraine need to train sappers , snipers and officers. It is this issue that the EU training mission can deal with.
- It is worth noting that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson proposed an extensive training operation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Johnson announced the corresponding proposal to Vladimir Zelensky in June during his visit to Kyiv.
