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Each country would send a battalion. Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania are continuing to discuss the possibility of creating a joint peacekeeping brigade, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel has said.

"The main issue that we discussed today is the creation of a peacekeeping unit – a Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian brigade," he told reporters after talks with his Polish counterpart Bogdan Klich in Warsaw on Tuesday.

He added that the sides had agreed that this would be a three-battalion brigade, i.e. each country would send a battalion.

"A rotation of command will be conducted by each of the countries," Yezhel said.

The ministers also discussed the issue of the conducting of exercises by these units on the fulfillment of peacekeeping missions.

Yezhel said that such a brigade could be formed in a year to a year-and-a-half.


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