Training centre for the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened
01.10.2025
We know that peace needs strength, it needs ability, training, well-trained troops and a strong alliance - the resilience of our societies. We are here today together with the ministers from Norway and Estonia, and high representatives from the other countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Iceland. We are with our friends from Ukraine - with the deputy minister of defence and other representatives of the Ukrainian state. We are here with soldiers. We are here with American commanders. We are here to show unity, agency, strength and resilience and preparedness. I am very grateful to the Kingdom of Norway, and to the soldiers of the Norwegian Armed Forces. I want to personally thank you, Tore, for taking up this challenge in a very short time - a decision made in May, the camp where 1200 soldiers can train at any one time opened on 1 October - underscored deputy prime minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz during the opening of Camp Jomsborg.
On 1 October, the deputy prime minister – minister of national defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz took part in the opening ceremony of the training centre for the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Camp Jomsborg). Minister of defence of Norway Tore O. Sandvik, minister of defence of Estonia Hanno Pevkur and the deputy minister of defence of Ukraine Yevhen Moisiuk also took part.
- This proves the ability to train Ukrainian soldiers on a massive scale, close to Ukraine – in Podkarpacie, a good place, in the training grounds whose new life is just beginning. It’s gaining capabilities that it previously never had. For this – cooperation, shared construction, this shared activity – I am really grateful to the soldiers of the Kingdom of Norway, the civil service of the Kingdom of Norway, the minister and all others who participated in it. But this is not a one-way process. I think that an important element of it is that we will be drawing on Ukrainian experiences. There is a drone airstrip right next to us. It is a place to implement the experiences from the war in Ukraine – implement the best solutions of anti-drone units and drone capabilities possessed by the Ukrainian Armed Froces, which acts on the side of good here.
- the Polish minister of national defence noted
The training centre, located on the Dęba-Lipa Land Forces Training Grounds, has been constructed as an international initiative by the Armed Forces of Norway, with Poland as the host nation.
The centre is another element of allied support for Ukraine and enables further cooperation in building defensive potential.
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Poland remains one of the most active donor countries helping Ukraine, both in terms of aid for its citizens and supplies of military equipment.