The chief of the General staff of Ukraine Colonel-General Viktor muzhenko agreed with the chief of staff U.S. army General Ramanda Odierno safety issues in the process of special operations in the Donbass, as well as General events on preparation of the Ukrainian military.
"during the meeting discussed the security in the area of the ATO, the planning of common activities, training of troops, which will be held in the second half of 2015 and throughout 2016, as well as the possibility of providing logistical support to the armed forces of Ukraine ", - wrote Muzhenko on Wednesday in a private Facebook.
Meeting Muzhenko and Odierno took place yesterday in Kiev.
As said on 7 July, the Secretary of defense Ashton Carter, Ukraine turned to the USA with the request to increase the number of American trainers for training Ukrainian soldiers. American Director of the Ministry of defense expressed in the Senate and told about his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Stepan Poltorak, who visited Washington at the end of June.
first it was claimed that Carter and Poltorak discussed " the ongoing U.S. assistance to Ukraine in terms of security ". For example, spoke of " additional supplies in mid-July, 100 cars Hummer and ongoing training of national guard forces in Yavorov ".
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.
The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone requires the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized self-proclaimed DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".
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