2023-06-15 18:57:24
The European Union (EU) anda has trained some 24,000 Ukrainian fighters out of the 30,000 it set as a goal for this year as part of its mission to train the Ukrainian troops so that they face the Russian invaders with more guarantees.
“We will follow supporting Ukraine (…) We have reached some 24,000 Ukrainian soldiers who are being trained in different Member States. And this figure will continue to grow, ”Borrell announced upon his arrival at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.
The head of community diplomacy also referred to what they have received from the EU countries requests for reimbursement of ammunition delivered to Ukraine worth “more than 900 million euros”.
The countries of the Union had assigned one billion euros from the European Peace Support Fund (FEAP) to finance part of the artillery ammunition that they had in their arsenals and that was urgently made available to Kiev.
“(Russian President Vladimir) Putin it continues to terrorize, attack and destroy civilian infrastructure and kill civilians. So we need to increase our support and provide more sophisticated weapons to deal with these attacksBorrell emphasized.
It is for this reason that the EU launched different courses of action to provide the ammunition Ukraine needs, he recalled.
He added that “at the end of July” they will also have approved contracts with the industry for the joint acquisition of ammunition by several Member States through the European Defense Agency.
With regard to the community initiative so that in the longer term the industry has guarantees of joint orders, which from Brussels has been baptized ASAP, Borrell highlighted that it is already being negotiated by the Union co-legislators, Parliament and the Council.
His goal, he said, is to provide the necessary support to the industry “to increase their capacities”.
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