Pentagon Reportedly Delays Training of Ukrainian Troops

CC BY 2.0 / Expert Infantry / US soldiers The US Army Europe Commander said the training had been delayed to give more time for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
The US Army Europe Commander said the training had been delayed to give more time for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. - Sputnik International
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The US Army Europe Commander said the training had been delayed to give more time for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US Army Europe Commander Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges announced Tuesday that training of three battalions of the Ukrainian army by US instructors had been delayed, Bloomberg reported.

Speaking at Defense Writers Group breakfast, Hodges said the training, originally scheduled to begin next week, had been delayed "to give more time for Minsk agreement implementation."

Ukrainian government soldiers sit on top of their vehicle driving on a road stretching away from the town of Artemivsk, Ukraine - Sputnik International
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US Plans to Send 300 Military Personnel to Train Ukrainian Soldiers
In early March, the US government announced that it had deployed 300 military personnel to Ukraine for a joint training mission.

The announcement was made amid fulfillment of a truce between Kiev forces and Donbas pro-independence militias signed in Minsk, Belarus. Under the peace plan, the sides ceased fire a month ago and pulled heavy weaponry away from the line of contact.

Washington has been providing Kiev with non-lethal military support since the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in April 2014. The US Congress authorized President Obama to supply Kiev with weapons, but he remains publicly reluctant to do so.

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