EU review does not recommend sending military trainers to Ukraine for now

24/8/2024 16:05

        The EU's diplomatic service has called on member states to better adapt a military training mission for Ukraine to Kyiv's needs but stopped short of recommending the bloc send military instructors to the war-torn country, German weekly Welt am Sonntag reported on Saturday.
        
        The EUMAM mission, launched in November 2022, has trained some 60,000 Ukrainian troops mainly in Poland and Germany and is set to be extended by another two years once the current mandate runs out in mid-November.
        
        "It is imperative to train AFU (Ukraine) soldiers on the same equipment that they will use later in combat," the report cited a review of the mission by the EU's diplomatic service as saying, adding that EU defence ministers would discuss the topic next week.
        
        It said that a shortage of Soviet-style equipment was one of the challenges of the current training in the EU.