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EU defence ministers are in Brussels on Friday to discuss the European Union’s ongoing operation to train Ukrainian soldiers to defend their country against Russia’s all-out invasion. A plan to move some of the EU training operations inside Ukraine is to be debated. Currently training is taking place in Germany and Poland. The training mission started in November 2022. So far 52,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained according to EU figures from May. The EU wants to train another 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers by the end of the summer of 2024. EU defence ministers are to debate the mission’s exte…

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