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US has no plan to send military trainers into Ukraine, top general says
- Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff gives briefing on US commitments to Ukraine
- The US is wary about putting its troops on the ground in Ukraine and provoking Russia
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The United States is not planning to send military trainers into Ukraine and would only be likely to do so when the war there with Russia is over, the top US general said on Monday, after France opened the door to sending troops to train Kyiv’s forces.
More than two years into the war, Russian forces are slowly advancing in eastern Ukraine, exploiting Ukrainian shortages of manpower and months of delays in arms supplies from the West.
That has raised questions about what more the United States and its allies can do, beyond funneling billions of dollars in weaponry and providing intelligence and training to Ukrainian military forces from outside the country.
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“Right now, there are no plans to bring US trainers into Ukraine,” General Charles Q Brown, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters.
“Once this conflict is over and we’re in a better place, then I would suspect we would be able to bring trainers back in,” Brown added.
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The United States had about 150 military trainers inside Ukraine until Russia invaded the country in February 2022.
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