Currently, there is still no consensus among the countries of the European Union on the issue of sending instructors to train the Ukrainian military directly on the territory of Ukraine.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell stated this at a press conference with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, in Kyiv on Saturday, November 9.
"Regarding the training mission that would operate on Ukrainian territory, there is still no consensus of the member states to reach this decision. But the training mission can continue its work" (on the territory of the EU countries - Ed.), Borrell said.
He also noted that by the end of this year, the EU military training mission for Ukraine will have trained 75,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
"We are trying to train Ukrainian soldiers as close as possible to the Ukrainian border, but this is not a defense mission as such... Currently, there is no consensus on doing this on Ukrainian territory. I cannot rule out that it will happen. But my task is to try, for the mission to work and increase the number of Ukrainian soldiers being trained," said the head of European diplomacy.
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