North Macedonia has completed the successful training of the first group of Ukrainian soldiers - information about the training has been kept secret for security reasons. This was announced on Tuesday by Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska in an interview with the national television channel "Macedonian Television", Balkan Insight reports.


According to the minister, the exercises were held "at facilities belonging to the army of the Republic of North Macedonia, as the government decided."


She added that North Macedonia, which joined NATO in 2020, will continue to train the Ukrainian military throughout 2024 and "as long as it is needed."


Petrovska did not say what kind of training the soldiers received, or how many soldiers have gone through or will go through the process.


This training makes North Macedonia the second Balkan country after Romania to offer bases on its territory for training Ukrainian soldiers.