EU High Representative Kaja Kallas Visits EUAM Ukraine Headquarters
October 14, 2025
On 13 October 2025, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – HRVP – Kaja Kallas visited the Headquarters of the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine in Kyiv.
HRVP Kallas was briefed by the European Union’s Civilian Operations Commander Stefano Tomat and met with EUAM Head of Mission Rolf Holmboe and the Mission’s senior staff to discuss EUAM’s role in strengthening Ukraine’s wartime resilience and advancing reforms in the civilian security sector that are now central to the country’s EU integration path.
As Ukraine continues to fight the aggressor, discussions focused on how EUAM supports Ukrainian authorities in the investigation and prosecution of international crimes to ensure accountability for war crimes committed during Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Mission’s experts work alongside investigators from the Security Service and National Police of Ukraine and with prosecutors to turn evidence into solid case files using among others painstaking forensic analysis and open-source intelligence.
EUAM shared experiences in the support for Ukrainian stabilisation in liberated and frontline communities. The development of a Ukrainian Stability Policing capability of 40,000 National Police and National Guard officers to support the civilian population under difficult circumstances is key to ensure the rule of law, safety and security of the population, and community policing, building trust between communities and law enforcement.
The HRVP was introduced to EUAM’s “Blue Haven” project, an initiative dedicated to supporting the mental health and well-being of Ukrainian law enforcement officers serving at the frontlines in a peer-to-peer approach so they can cope with mental stress and continue their vital work to protect citizens, including in the war-affected territories.
While much of EUAM’s work responds to immediate wartime realities, the HRVP was briefed about the Mission’s work to support long-term reforms as part of Ukraine’s EU accession process. Ukraine’s implementation of its Overarching Strategy to Reform in the civilian security sector is key to meeting the required EU standards of governance, transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption. A part of this is also the development of integrated border management to meet EU standards towards compatibility with the Schengen criteria and the EU Customs Union on land and at sea.
“EUAM’s goal is to support Ukraine go through the necessary deep, lasting, and irreversible reform of Ukraine’s civilian security sector as quickly as possible,” said Rolf Holmboe. “We stand with our Ukrainian partners to strengthen institutions to ensure the rule of law and effective anti-corruption that is the backbone of any democratic and prosperous society.”
