UK Minister of the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster arrived in Ukraine on Thursday.
The British Embassy in Kyiv announced this in a statement on Twitter, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"UK Minister of the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster is today visiting Ukraine, meeting the UK and Ukrainian troops training together as part of Operation Orbital," reads the statement.
The Embassy says on its Facebook page that British personnel have been in Ukraine since 2015 on Operation Orbital, and will be there until at least early 2018.
Since being in the country, UK troops have directly trained over 5,000 members of Ukraine's Armed Forces in defensive skills, 1,000 more than initially targeted.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in July, the United Kingdom handed some special equipment to the Ukrainian cyber police.
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