EU to discuss training mission for Ukrainian forces next week

BRUSSELS, 26 August 2022, (TON): The bloc s foreign policy chief said European Union defence ministers will discuss options to set up a military training mission for Ukrainian forces at an Aug 29-30 meeting in Prague.”

Josep Borrell said “as EU, we have to see what else we can do in terms of support to Ukraine and increasing the cost of this war for Russia.”

“We will discuss this in Prague next week, including on the issue of visas for Russian citizens and a possible EU training mission for Ukrainian armed forces.”

Borrell referred to the idea of an EU military training programme at a conference in Spain, explaining that it would not be based in Ukraine, but in neighbouring countries.

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