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EU starts training 14,800 Ukrainian soldiers – with headquarters in Germany

The EU foreign ministers want to give the go-ahead for the training of Ukrainian soldiers at their meeting in Brussels next Monday.

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EU starts training 14,800 Ukrainian soldiers – with headquarters in Germany

The EU foreign ministers want to give the go-ahead for the training of Ukrainian soldiers at their meeting in Brussels next Monday. The training program is to start in Germany and other EU countries just a few days after the “decision on the initiation of the support mission for Ukraine”.

The informal troop contributors conference, which determines which countries will take part in the mission and how many military trainers, took place yesterday, Tuesday. "Russia's recent indiscriminate attacks will not shake our resolve to support Ukraine, only strengthen it," EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell said in October.

The plans for the training mission, officially called the EU Military Assistance Mission to Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine), envisage training 14,800 Ukrainian soldiers. Of these, 2,800 men and women will receive special training. However, the number of trainees is to be increased further in the future. Ukraine had initially demanded that up to nine brigades be trained. That can be tens of thousands of people.

That would be conceivable, because Brussels is already considering training Ukrainian soldiers directly on site after a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv. The training assignment, which for security reasons is taking place on European soil for the first time in the history of the EU, is initially scheduled to last two years.

In addition to military basics, skills such as mine clearance, protection against chemical and nuclear weapons, medical services and cyber defense are also to be taught. In particular, Germany wants to get involved in strategic military planning and in the training of Ukrainian trainers. The operation is controlled from Brussels, the two subordinate headquarters are in Poland and Germany.

According to diplomats, the mission will cost 54 million euros a year, with the money coming from the so-called European Peace Facility. This is a fund financed directly by the member states for worldwide crisis operations, currently worth 5.7 billion euros by 2027. However, 3.1 billion euros of this has already been used up because of the Ukraine war.

According to WELT information, the EU states want to increase the pot to ten to twelve billion euros in the future, the consultations are still ongoing. Operations commander Herve Blejean warned internally that "the mission is expected to be the target of disinformation, but also of hybrid and cyber campaigns by Russia."

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