By KYIV. Nov 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – By the end of 2023, France plans to train 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers as part of the EU mission, the Associated Press (AP) said on Monday, November 13.
“France is on course to have trained 7,000 Ukrainians this year — some in Poland, others at French bases — as part of a European Union military assistance mission for Ukraine that launched a year ago this week,” according to the statement.
The EU mission’s initial goal was to train 15,000 soldiers, but now plans to reach 35,000 by the end of this year, AP said. All but three of the EU’s 27 member states, as well as non-member Norway, have provided training courses or instructors, according to the EU Commission.
The United States has trained about 18,000 people, mostly in Germany, with another 1,000 in training, according to the Pentagon.
In Britain, over the past 17 months, some 30,000 people have undergone military training. The UK government says the training program is unprecedented since the Second World War.
