BRUSSELS. Jan 31 (Interfax) - The defense ministers of the European Union member states have agreed at an informal meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to train an additional 20,000 servicemen for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said.
"We have almost reached the target of 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers trained to our training mission in Ukraine. Today, we have agreed to add an additional 20,000 soldiers and this will put the bar at 60,000 soldiers trained in total," Borrell said at a press conference.
"This figure will be reached by the end of summer," he said.
In late November 2023, the Council of the European Union made a decision to provide additional funding totaling 194 million euros to train Ukrainian servicemen as part of the EU military aid mission for Ukraine.