Ukrainian Armed Forces to take part in 22 multinational exercises in 2021 – defense minister

He said this at a briefing entitled "Defense aspects of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration: main achievements and tasks for the future" for ambassadors and military attaches of NATO member states and representatives of the NATO office in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry's press service reported.

"We invite all our partners to increase the level of participation in exercises in Ukraine next year. For our part, given our status as an enhanced opportunities partner, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready to join the relevant exercises of the Alliance related to collective defense," Taran said.

He also stressed that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is working with partners to improve the skills of Ukrainian servicemen in such military training missions as JMTG-U (Joint Multinational Training Group - Ukraine), Orbital (the UK's training mission to Ukraine), UNIFIER (the Canadian Armed Forces' training mission) and LMTG-U (the Lithuanian Armed Forces' training mission).

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