EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday that there was "broad support" in the bloc to conduct training in Ukraine for Kyiv's military if a ceasefire with Russia is in place.

The 27-nation EU has so far trained over 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers outside the borders of the war-torn country to help it battle Moscow's invasion.

Kallas said the move could be part of broader Western security guarantees given to Ukraine to help shore up any ceasefire agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I welcome that there is broad support today to expand our EU military mission mandate to provide training and advice inside Ukraine after any truce," Kallas said after talks with EU defence ministers.

"We must be ready to do more. This could include placing EU trainers in Ukrainian military acade

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