Ukraine to ask Israel in training Kiev Forces

Ukraine has said it intends to invite Israeli instructors to offer military training to its armed forces.

Military sources in Kiev said Ukraine should learn from the experience of other states on how to survive in conditions of war".

The source said Ukraine has started to learn about the Israeli experience in greater detail and will invite its instructors just as the Americans are helping.

During a July visit to Washington, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko requested lethal military aid from the Obama administration, but Washington refused to grant it.

The situation in Ukraine escalated in mid-April, when Kiev launched a military operation against independence supporters in the country's southeastern regions, who refused to recognize the new government which came to power as a result of the February coup.

RIA NOVOSTI