On Wednesday 26 July, Anna Fotyga MEP (ECR, Polish), a member of the delegation of five MEPs who visited the training centres of the EU Military Assistance Mission to Ukraine (EUMAM) in Poland and Germany, praised the work carried out by the mission.
“It was set up in record time, and after more than 6 months, we are very satisfied with the results achieved in both Germany and Poland”, she stated at a press briefing in Warsaw. The target of training 30,000 people by the end of the year should be reached shortly.
“We met courageous and professional members of the Ukrainian armed forces who have already demonstrated their expertise on the battlefield (...) Thanks to this additional training provided by the EU, we are convinced that they will be more effective when they return home”, added Lukas Mandl (EPP, Austrian), head of the delegation and Vice Chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
The delegation, which also included Arnaud Danjean (EPP, French), Attila Ara-Kovács (S&D, Hungarian) and Petras Auštrevičius (Renew Europe, Lithuanian) visited the Special Training Command (STC) in Germany and the Combined Arms Training Command (CAT-C) in Poland to assess the role of the EUMAM mission in strengthening the capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Mr Mandl also called on the European institutions and the Member States to continue to provide the necessary capabilities, in particular with sustained funding through the European Peace Facility. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)