NATO is one a report According to the New York Times (NYT), it appears close to sending troops to Ukraine. These forces aim to train Ukrainian soldiers. According to the American newspaper, this step would drag the United States and Europe deeper into the conflict.
There is a shortage of soldiers in the Ukrainian army, and there appears to be no end in sight to the war. Russia invades the lands. The question is how long Ukraine can survive in the face of a union with about 3.5 times the population.
That’s why Ukrainian officials have reportedly asked the United States and NATO members to bring 150,000 new recruits to the front line to make them operational more quickly — and some Ukrainian forces are now scheduled to be trained in Germany, among other places.
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The White House had previously repeatedly confirmed that it would not deploy American forces, including trainers, on Ukrainian territory. This is a position that was repeated by a government official on Thursday. The newspaper wrote that in this case, America could be drawn into a deeper war.
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The US government called on NATO allies not to send their forces. As part of NATO, the United States would be bound by NATO treaty to help defend against any attack on the trainers.
The New York Times wrote that the United States has not yet agreed to this. However, Gen. Charles Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed on Thursday that NATO’s deployment of trainers seemed inevitable. “We will get there with time,” he added.
The idea of sending troops to Ukraine has been around for a long time. In Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron in particular has called for Europe to be more directly involved in the war in Ukraine. Just this week, the Estonian government also did not rule out sending troops to western Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: Is NATO now sending troops?Bestemage/Imago
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis supported Emmanuel Macron’s position in one of the positions interview With the Guardian last week. “Our forces have already received training before the war in Ukraine,” he said, adding: “So it may be possible to return to this tradition.”
US forces have already trained Ukrainian forces in Poland, Germany and the United States. The United States had previously supported a NATO training program at Gavoriv in western Ukraine, but American forces withdrew from there early in the war.
“US officials now realize that current training by Ukrainian forces is inadequate, and that they need better and faster training to confront the expected Russian attack this summer,” the New York Times wrote.
Training courses abroad were not always successful, the Times wrote, citing as an example training on German soil in maneuver warfare, mine-clearing and other military tasks. However, it is said that such extensive training was rather difficult over a period of twelve weeks.
Ukrainian forces are scheduled to be trained in Germany
Now, large groups of new Ukrainian recruits could be sent to Germany and Poland for training purposes, the New York Times wrote, citing anonymous officials. Accordingly, the troops should be sent to the US Army training facilities in Grafenwoehr (Bavaria). There they will be taught „combined arms warfare.”
The troops will then be sent approximately 1,600 kilometers to Lviv and then to Kiev to reach the front lines. She added that Germany, Britain and France are currently working to locate defense companies in Ukraine to help build and repair weapons systems near the combat zone.
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