WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States is to begin training Ukrainian army troops in an expansion to its military involvement in the divided country, the State Department said Friday.US troops have already deployed in small numbers to Ukraine to train National Guard forces, but under the new plan would also take on regular military units.This will bring the total cost of a security assistance package for the embattled country — locked in a conflict with pro-Russian separatists — to $244 million since 2014.But a spokesman said the training would take place in the west of the country, far from the …read more
Source: Dunya TV
