NATO is already openly talking about sending military instructors to Ukraine to simplify logistics and to gain time – something Kyiv needs right now.
So far, Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in Germany, Poland and the United States. But just the logistics required for this - transporting the men and women to the training sites - takes a lot of time, which Ukraine does not have. There are about 1,600 kilometers between Kiev and Bavaria, where the Americans carry out training programs at their base, writes focus.de.
That's why President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government has asked the United States and NATO to train 150,000 new recruits closer to the front lines. A possible location would be the city of Lviv on the border with Poland.
NATO instructors in Ukraine would be a prime target for the Russian military. They will need to be extensively protected by air defense systems. It is believed that if such a scenario were to occur, the air defense defense would be stronger than any other defense in the country.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that NATO members are considering how best to help Ukraine, especially now given the front-line personnel problems. It is important to emphasize that there are currently no NATO troops fighting against the Russians in Ukraine, and there is also no decision to send them.
Kiev has repeatedly indicated that it needs Western weapons, not Western soldiers. Recently, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Ukraine after weeks earlier the country's Congress finally decided to grant $60 billion in military aid to Kiev – which was blocked for months.
According to unconfirmed information, even Blinken's words can be understood as permission to use American weapons even on the territory of Russia. For a long time this was considered a great taboo. From a legal point of view, it is logical for Ukraine to attack the Russian aggressor on its soil, because it carries out many attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine precisely from its territory.