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reference news reported on august 31 according to a report by deutsche presse-agentur on august 30, the eu's top diplomat josep borrell said on the 30th that eu defense ministers agreed to increase the training target for ukrainian soldiers to 75,000 by the end of this year.

eu defense ministers reportedly met in brussels to discuss the eu's ongoing efforts to train ukrainian soldiers.

borrell told a press conference it was "the most successful training mission ever carried out by the european union".

the training is taking place in germany and poland. borrell said the eu had trained 60,000 ukrainian soldiers by the end of summer 2024. the new training goal is to increase it by 15,000.

the report mentioned that eu defense ministers also debated the issue of extending the mission to 2026 and are about to make a decision.

they also discussed plans to move some eu training operations to ukraine, but borrell said no agreement had been reached on that.

the eu's top diplomat said it had been decided that the training would take place "as close to ukraine as possible, but not on ukrainian territory," adding that a team of "mainly military" officers would coordinate the training from kiev.

french president emmanuel macron, with the support of lithuania, said he supported training ukrainian soldiers in ukraine. some eu countries, including germany, expressed concern about the move. (compiled by feng xue)