Ukraine and the UK will join a new EU High-Level Group on Defense which will be launched next week.
As reported by an Ukrinform correspondent, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas announced this following an informal meeting of EU defense ministers in Ireland.
“Next week, I will launch a new High-Level Group on Defense, consisting of senior political and military leaders from several EU countries, but also from UK and Ukraine,” she said.
The High Representative noted that although Europe is investing more in defense than ever before, spending alone does not automatically guarantee success.
“We have not been fast enough to cover the gaps in Europe's conventional power within NATO that we have identified. The aim is to have some of the brightest minds on security and defense to come together and really provide out-of-the-box solutions: how can we be faster to fulfilling these gaps, and how can we be more effective, especially now that the security threat in Europe is so much more real,” Kallas said.
