European Union countries will train 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers in 2023, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday, as its army launched a counter-offensive aimed at liberating the territories occupied by Russia. “In 2023, within the framework of the EU military assistance mission to Ukraine, it is planned to train 30,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including soldiers of the Territorial Defense Forces,” the ministry said. in a statement posted on Telegram.
“The strategic objective is to strengthen the capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the effective conduct of operations, the protection of sovereignty and the restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, [as well as] the protection of civilians,” said he continued.
This announcement comes on the same day as the European Commission’s request to EU Member States to grant a budget extension of 50 billion euros to the budget of the Twenty-Seven to help Ukraine until 2027. “We we are in a completely different world from that of 2020 when the EU’s multi-annual budget was negotiated”, justified the president of the European executive, Ursula von der Leyen, during a press briefing in Brussels on Tuesday. .
