Borrell is positive about the possible approval of the training mission to the Ukrainian Army

MADRID, 30 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, has been positive this Tuesday about the possibility that the Defense Ministers of the Twenty-seven give the go-ahead to the creation of a European training mission for Army soldiers ukrainian

"We have a fairly complex procedure to identify the objectives and purposes, the dimensions (and) the resources. But I hope that we will have a political 'green light' for this mission," Borrell said in Prague before an informal meeting of the ministers of EU defense.

In this sense, he explained that, during this Tuesday, they will discuss the situation in Ukraine, especially the recent bombings around the Zaporizhia nuclear plant. "We see the continuing indiscriminate bombing of civilians (and) atrocities against prisoners of war," she explained.

Borrell has described Moscow's nuclear game as "dangerous", for which he has pointed out that kyiv needs support from the EU. "The Defense Minister of Ukraine (Oleksi Reznikov) will be with us. This is the most important part of the meeting for me," he said.

"How can we boost the European defense industry? How can we get member states to buy more equipment because we are depleting our stocks? We are providing so much capability to Ukraine that we have to refill our stocks," he asked.

Although many details remain to be defined, such as establishing the base of operations, the idea is to combine the efforts that the EU countries are already making separately to provide military training to Ukrainian soldiers, who have been fighting the Russian invasion since February.

For Wednesday, when the informal meeting of Foreign Ministers will continue, the possible limitation of the visa policy for Russian citizens will be on the table, a point of particular interest to the Baltic countries, Poland or the Czech Republic, host and holding the six-monthly presidency of the EU.