Lithuania willing to expand military training coeration with Ukraine

This was stated by Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas at a joint press conference with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“Lithuania and Ukraine have a wide range of areas for coeration. One of these areas is defense. This includes training and education of the military for participation in combat erations. To answer your question, Lithuania is able and willing to expand our coeration in this area as well,” he said in response to a question about the readiness of the Baltic country to send its instructors to Ukraine if necessary.

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As reported, a delegation of ministers led by Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas arrived in Kyiv on December 20.

Flowing the intergovernmental consultations, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that this year Lithuania would provide EUR 10 million to implement the “Danish model”, which invves investing in arms production in Ukraine.

In addition, Lithuania has announced its readiness to invest in the production of Ukraine's Palianytsia missile-drone, a part of the country's long-range capabilities program.