NATO and Ukraine start a trust Fund for assistance to Ukrainian armed forces
Vladimir Dobrovolsky. Countries-members of NATO and Ukraine on Tuesday announced the strengthening defence cooperation and the beginning of the work of the trust funds through which the Alliance will assist in strengthening the logistics and command capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces, reported in the General communiqu? of the Ministerial meeting of the Commission Ukraine - NATO.
" Today we are pleased to announce that a special trust Fund for projects related to command, control, communications and information technology, logistics, cyber defence, career changes for soldiers and medical rehabilitation act, " reads the document.
The mechanism of operation of these funds was developed this summer. In September, the now former Commonwealth Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the amount of aid Ukraine will presumably be fifteen million euros.
in the communiqu?, the parties emphasize that currently reinforce cooperation in the sector of defence and security through development programmes and create the necessary capacity for Ukraine.
NATO and Ukraine also have plans to help develop a broad cooperation between the Ukrainian forces and NATO forces ".
" Consulting NATO's presence in Kiev has already been strengthened and will continue to be so, " said the communiqu?.