The commander of land forces of the USA in the European Union, Lieutenant-General Frederick Ben Hodges said that the mission to train Ukrainian soldier has the option to be renewed, the Agency reports

Speaking at the event Wroclaw Global Forum in Poland, Hodges said that the mission to train Ukrainian soldiers, which involves 300 U.S. Marines, is valid until October this year and has the possibility to be extended.

in mid-April, about 300 U.S. Marines arrived in Ukraine to participate in command post exercises Fearless guardian 2015 in Lviv region, which was launched on 20 April. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the military training from the U.S. Ukrainians possession of weapons and appliances of the Western sample can be regarded as the 1st step to supplies to Ukraine modern American weapons.

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 began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.

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