NATO allies are getting closer to the decision to send troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, reports "The New York Times".
This move would involve the US and Europe more directly in the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine is suffering from the smaller number of soldiers compared to Russia, and this is also being observed on the battlefield in recent weeks where Russia is making advances.
As a result, Ukrainian officials have asked the Americans and NATO allies to help train 150 new recruits to be sent to the front more quickly.
So far the U.S. has said no, but Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who is the top military official in the U.S. Armed Forces, said Thursday that sending NATO instructors appears inevitable. .
"We'll get there with time," Brown Jr. said.
For now, he said, an engagement inside Ukraine would "put a number of NATO instructors at risk" and would mean deciding whether to use much-needed air defense to protect instructors instead of infrastructure. Ukrainian critical near the battlefields.
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