NATO’S TOP MILITARY BODY WILL VISIT UKRAINE FOR FIRST TIME IN EIGHT YEARS
NATO’s Military Committee will visit Ukraine this October for the first time in eight years, Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi announced following talks with committee chairman Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone.
Drapatyi briefed the admiral on the battlefield and Ukraine’s central military priorities: long-range strikes, flexible infantry tactics, frontline robotization and air defense. Dragone confirmed that NATO is expanding defense production both for the Alliance and Ukraine, stressing that “Ukraine’s security is our security.”
The Military Committee is NATO’s highest military authority and includes the chiefs of defense from every member state. Its visit is imperative. A war this complex cannot be fully understood through intermediaries, written briefings or conversations held hundreds of kilometers from the front.
NATO’s senior commanders need to speak directly with the Ukrainians fighting it, examine their requirements face-to-face and understand how quickly the battlefield is evolving.
Ukraine is not merely receiving NATO support. It is sharing combat experience in drone warfare, air defense, electronic warfare and frontline adaptation that no other military currently possesses. The Alliance has much to offer Ukraine—but it also has much to learn from it.