The NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), a joint project of Ukraine and NATO, was opened in Poland.

The Ministry of Defense of Poland reported on this.

JATEC’s task is to study the experience of a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war and to introduce appropriate changes to NATO strategies.

“Today, to create an effective deterrence and defense capability, we need to collect and analyze the experience of the war in Ukraine. We will do this in Poland,” said Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

The head of the newly created center is Polish General Wojciech Ozga.

The Polish Defense Ministry details that JATEC has already acquired initial operational capabilities and will be fully operational by the end of this year.

The decision to establish the center was made on February 15, 2024, and confirmed at the NATO summit in Washington.

According to NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Šekerinska, the organization of the structure was accomplished in just a few months.

The NATO Deputy Secretary General reminded that JATEC is just one example of the Alliance’s firm commitment to support Ukraine.

“The opening of the Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC) is a real step forward for NATO and for Ukraine. The work of JATEC will help the Alliance and Ukraine to be stronger, and all of us to be safer… This is a unique civil-military organization, the first to be jointly led by NATO and a partner country. Here, we will learn from Ukraine, and gain first-hand experience in the fight against Russian aggression. JATEC will strengthen Ukraine’s security and defense sector, develop its long-term deterrence and defense system, and help Ukraine to be fully interoperable with NATO,” she emphasized.

On December 17, it was reported that NATO had taken over from the United States to coordinate Western military assistance to Ukraine, as planned.

This move, made after a delay of several months, gives NATO a more direct role in the war against Russia’s invasion, without having to deploy its own forces.

The headquarters of the new mission for Ukraine, called NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, is located on the territory of the US base in the German city of Wiesbaden.