Pentagon Approves Plan To Treat Ukrainian Troops At US Military Hospital

Pentagon, America (Wikimedia Commons/Mariordo Camila Ferreira & Mario Duran)

JAKARTA - The United States Department of Defense, known as the Pentagon, formally approved in late June a plan to help treat injured Ukrainian troops at a US military hospital in Germany, a defense official said Tuesday.

A US official who spoke on condition of anonymity said so far no Ukrainian troops had been treated and US troops would not go to Ukraine to take Ukrainian personnel out.

Ukrainian troops will be treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center if needed, the official said.

Adjacent to Ramstein Air Base, which is also a base for US Air Force and NATO forces southwest of Frankfurt, it is the largest US military hospital outside the continental United States.

Nearly five months since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of neighboring Russia, his forces overran the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and occupied about a fifth of the country.

The Kyiv government said in June that 100 to 200 Ukrainian soldiers were being killed per day.

It is not clear how many Ukrainian soldiers were injured but thousands of civilians were killed and millions more fled. The barrage of Russian artillery and air strikes has destroyed cities.

In addition, it is also unclear whether any Ukrainian soldiers are being treated in other countries, such as neighboring Poland.

Meanwhile, the United States has so far trained Ukrainian troops in Germany and provided more than $8 billion in security assistance to the Kyiv government.