In addition to arms supplies, there will now be a separate EU training mission for the Ukrainian armed forces. The European Union’s defense ministers, among others, will discuss this on Tuesday. “We received initial thoughts on this last week,” Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner confirmed to the APA on Monday. “From our point of view, there are still many unanswered questions that are essential for a decision,” the minister responded to the proposals from Brussels.
Russia’s war of aggression, which has been going on for almost six months, requires efforts from the EU – “not only for material supplies, but also for training and support in organizing the army” of Ukraine, emphasized Josep Borrell, head of foreign policy from the EU last week. He hopes that member states will agree to the plan.
Education outside Ukraine
According to Tanner, it must be examined, among other things, whether such a mission can exist under European law. Special Forces from the United Kingdom and the US, but also from the German Federal Armed Forces and the Netherlands are already being deployed as trainers. As the Bloomberg news agency reports, there is an acute demand for medical care, mine clearance and sniper operations.
In any case, the training mission would not take place in Ukraine itself for the time being, so as not to endanger the lives of the trainers. “You could definitely move them there later on,” the paper says, quoting Bloomberg.
Source: Krone
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