Lithuania has reached an agreement with eight other countries to train and equip a Ukrainian brigade at a training center in Poland, LRT reports.

According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense, a memorandum of understanding was signed on Wednesday during a NATO defense ministers’ meeting between the Scandinavian and Baltic countries and Poland.

The participating countries will provide support, including the supply of weapons and equipment, as well as military personnel training, to prepare the Ukrainian brigade according to NATO’s modern standards.

For this initiative, Lithuania will provide a mobile training team, training ammunition, and grenades. Lithuania will also donate locally produced air defense and night vision equipment worth approximately €12 million to the Ukrainian brigade.

The OP-LEGIO training center opened on October 1 in Poland, 160 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Norway leads the initiative, joined by Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, and Sweden.

According to the Ministry of Defense, Lithuania continues to provide comprehensive military support to Ukraine. Together with Iceland, it leads the demining coalition, regularly supplies demining equipment to Ukrainian combat engineering units, and participates in five other coalition operations, ranging from drones to electronic warfare systems.

Specifically, Lithuania has allocated €20 million for long-range drone production and is actively working with Ukrainian companies to establish joint production in Lithuania.

Lithuania is also participating in humanitarian aid initiatives: $30 million has been allocated to the Ukraine Priority Needs List (PURL), €68 million to the Czech ammunition initiative, €5 million to NATO security assistance programs, and an additional €30 million is planned for the purchase of Patriot air defense systems.