Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said the facility, called Camp Jomsborg, can host up to 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers at a time.
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Training will be conducted by instructors from allied countries.
"Peace requires strength, skill, training, a well-prepared army, a strong alliance and resilient societies,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said at the opening ceremony in Nowa Dęba-Lipa, southeastern Poland.
He told reporters that around 250 Norwegian soldiers were already stationed at the site, with five rotations of 500 troops each planned for next year.
Estonia has also sent personnel, with other partner nations expected to follow.
Kosiniak-Kamysz stressed that the support for Ukraine was not “one-directional.” In return, he said, allies were gaining invaluable knowledge from Ukraine’s battlefield experience.
“There is no other army in the world as well trained in drones and counter-drone systems as Ukraine’s,” he said.
The ceremony was attended by defence ministers from Norway and Estonia, representatives from Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark, as well as Ukrainian officials, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Photo: PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
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Source: IAR, PAP, TVP Info