Reforming military to meet NATO standards to continue – Poroshenko
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine's leadership will continue to reform the Armed Forces of Ukraine to ensure that the military meets NATO standards.
"Together we'll complete reforming and setting of the new Ukrainian army, the army, which on one hand meets NATO standards, and now we resolutely transfer Ukrainian Armed Force to these standards, and from the other hand – [Ukraine] will possess colossal combat experience gained in the fight wit Russian aggression," the president said during a meeting with officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who took part in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Kyiv on Monday.
Poroshenko also stressed that military instructors of NATO member states who have been ordered to Ukraine to increase the defensive capacities of the Armed Forces will also get invaluable experience, gained by servicemen of the Ukrainian army during military action "and they [will] arrive [in Ukraine] to learn [about] combat experience."
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