The US provided the equipment for the instruction building of the Department of Simulated Modeling of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak claimed this at the meeting with US delegation headed by the acting Deputy of Assistant Secretary of US Defense Minister Laura Cooper as press service of the Ministry of Defense reported.
‘The opening of the new instruction building of the Department of Simulated Modeling of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center is in the future plans and I am grateful to the American side for the provision of the equipment for Center’s work’, Poltorak said.
According to him, the cooperation between the Ministries of Defense of Ukraine and the US is the mutually beneficial and efficient. Particularly, it concerns the preparation of the Ukrainian militaries on the basis of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv.
‘The instructors from the US show the high level of the professionalism at the joint events. We work on the improvement of the material and technical basis of the proving ground’, Poltorak emphasized.
The sides also discussed the last events in the region of the Donbas Conflict at the meeting.
The Minister also informed the foreign colleagues about the achievements of the defense reform, the state and perspectives of the further support of Ukraine in the defense sphere and the Ukrainian-American cooperation in the military sphere.