Czechia to train up to 4,000 Ukrainian tros

That’s according to Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova, Reuters reports, as seen by Ukrinform.

“The training would be done in five four-week cycles with up to 800 tros attending each, and cost 975 million crowns ($41.60 million),” the Defense Ministry said.

Ukraine has shown interest in training of mainly mechanized battalions and medics, engineering and chemical tros, Cernochova said.

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The Czech Republic will also send 55 tros as instructors or members of command structures of the planned EU training mission in other EU member states.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the Eurean Union foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday approved the launch of a training mission for 15,000 Ukrainian servicemen, and also agreed to provide an additional EUR 500 million to fund arms supplies to Ukraine.