Saturday, July 25, 2015

The United States intends to continue training Ukrainian security forces this fall in western Ukraine

The United States intends to continue training Ukrainian security forces this fall in western Ukraine. And this is going to be small-unit training conducted by U.S. Army Europe for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense personnel to help strengthen Ukraine’s internal defense capabilities. It is similar, quite frankly, to our ongoing training of the National Guard, which we announced, I think, last March.

This training is part of our long-running defense cooperation with Ukraine and is taking place at the invitation of the Ukraine Government. And this additional program brings our total security assistance committed to Ukraine since 2014 to over 244 million.

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