A senior US national security official confirmed the country was holding to its position of not sending military advisors to Ukraine. "As we've said several times on the record, we are not planning to send US military advisors or troops, trainers to train Ukrainians in Ukraine," declared US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during a briefing on Tuesday.
Sullivan conveyed these comments to journalists while en route to Paris, France, where he will accompany US President Joe Biden for the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings along the Normandy coast, followed by a state visit. According to Xinhua news agency, Sullivan emphasized that the US has been conducting training sessions for Ukrainian soldiers outside Ukrainian borders. These sessions occur primarily in Germany, where "thousands of Ukrainian soldiers" are undergoing training on the operation of Western-made military equipment.
"We are fully prepared to continue and even expand such training," Sullivan affirmed.
"We will have the opportunity to speak with the French president and the French team on the ground about what they are thinking, and obviously, I'm not going to get ahead of any announcements they make," he said, in light of recent media reports saying that French President Emmanuel Macron is mulling the dispatch of his country's military instructors into Ukraine.
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