WASHINGTON – US troops in Poland today are training Ukrainian soldiers and teaching them how to use the weapons provided to Kyiv as part of support from Washington and other Western nations against the Russian military operation.
As confirmed by the chain CNN According to a source familiar with the matter, Pentagon troops are teaching Ukrainians at a Polish military base, although it says it doesn’t constitute “formal training.”
They show Ukrainian soldiers how some Western-supplied equipment works, such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, which the United States and its allies have supplied in large numbers, he said CNN the official.
Poland has become the central transit point for arms shipments to Ukraine.
Political observers question the role of the US and its partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the current conflict, because on the one hand they talk about peace and diplomatic channels and on the other hand they add fuel to the fire with arms deliveries and military aid in general.
US President Joe Biden said Monday that his country’s troops stationed at the Ukraine-Polish border “help train Ukrainian troops.”
The training is one of the ways the US executive is supporting the Ukrainian army, while the White House has publicly assured it will not confront Russia directly to avoid a wider war.
The US government has provided Ukraine with $1 billion in military aid in the last month alone and intends to equip President Vladimir Zelenskyy’s camp with shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons, machine guns, grenade launchers, ammunition and drones.
These are direct transfers from our Department of Defense to the Ukrainian military to help them deal with Russia, and we will continue to do more in the coming days and weeks, the Oval Office resident said earlier this month.
While Washington and NATO have so far ruled out sending troops to Ukraine, there is information-sharing between US and Ukrainian forces alongside tactical military training, local media previously reported.
The leaked information includes data on the movements and locations of Russian forces, as well as intercepted communications about Moscow’s military plans.