just something I found about this topic, while reading a briefing with Gen. Breedlove here

Q: Sir, there's an upcoming exercise, I believe in late March, in Western Ukraine, with several hundred members of the 173rd Airborne training the national guard.

Can you give us numbers of troops that are going to be involved, and what they're going to be actually doing? Are they going to be elsewhere in Eastern Europe?

And is this kind of a large scale exercise or a movement inside Ukraine? Something that we're going to see more of in the coming months?

GEN. BREEDLOVE: So first and foremost, we have an ongoing series of exercises and what I would call coaching and mentoring opportunities you have seen reported just in the last two days, that team of medical folks are going in from U.S. European Command to do coaching and mentoring and inside of Ukraine.

So, there is an ongoing series of these exercises. The exercise which you speak about is catching some attention because it's a little bit bigger.

There is a range, a training range in the extreme western part of Ukraine. In fact, it's so far west in Ukraine, it's almost in Poland, which is a very good training area where we do any number of the smaller exercises. And during this exercise, if it is conducted, we would be in there doing more coaching and mentoring, training, small unit tactics, small command and control, et cetera, et cetera, to build capabilities and capacities in the Ukrainian national guard.

And I think that's about as far as I want to go on that.

Q: On numbers, about how many troops will actually be involved? And you said that if it is conducted. Is that because you have discussions about possibly not undertaking --

GEN. BREEDLOVE: Everything we're doing in Ukraine now, we take a look at, because what we don't want to do is worse in any current situation. So, we don't do anything on automatic as it relates to Ukraine right now.