Western military trainers could go to Ukraine, Lithuania minister says

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Lithuania’s foreign minister has raised the prospect of an ad hoc coalition of western countries sending military training personnel into Ukraine backed by ground-based air defence, days after Russia took an increasingly strident tone against what it sees as the threat of deeper western involvement in the war.

He said a proposal to train Ukrainians inside their own country was “more practical” than the training taking place on the territory of Nato members. He said the Lithuanian parliament had already given the government a mandate to train inside Ukraine but that this would be best done as part of a bigger coalition.

“The damage that we’re seeing – it’s on us, it’s our failure. It sounds like Russian success, but they can do this blindfolded if we’re unable to defend Ukrainian cities. They’re just bombarding the brain centres of the electricity grid which is way more difficult to fix. Landsbergis urged Britain to take a bigger role in Ukraine and denied that the country had taken too many steps away from Europe to make this possible. “There is room. There is a need. There is potential and there are things that we can do together.”

 

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