Re: Ukraine / Latvia

by **GeminiTeam** Fri 16 Apr 2021, 7:58 pm

COVID-19 outbreak hits Canadian soldiers deployed in Ukraine

04.16.2021

A significant COVID-19 outbreak has struck Canadian Armed Forces members deployed to Ukraine to help train Kyiv’s soldiers as the country battles Russian-backed separatists.

Canadian troops are dispersed among 12 locations in Ukraine, a factor that has helped stop the spread. About 200 soldiers are deployed to Ukraine as part of Operation Unifier.

The military will not disclose precise numbers, citing operational security, but Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Lake, the commanding officer of Joint Task Force-Ukraine, said the deployment has been hit quite hard in a few locations. This includes the combat training centre in Yavoriv, western Ukraine.

Lt.-Col. Lake herself contracted COVID after arriving in Ukraine in March with the latest rotation of Canadian soldiers. The previous commanding officer, Lt. Col. Sarah Heer, had also come down with COVID and this forced them to miss the transfer of command ceremony on March 29, which was the first woman-to-woman transfer in the history of Canadian deployed operations. Deputies stood in for the two officers who delivered their speeches by phone instead of in person.

Both women have since recovered with no lingering effects, Lt-Col. Lake said.

She said she expects a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to arrive next week and the Forces will conduct a “vaccine roadshow” across Ukraine starting April 21 to administer first doses to Canadian soldiers. Lt.-Col. Lake describes this as the “light at the end of the tunnel.”

In the meantime, however, the Canadian deployment has paused training operations to focus on protecting itself. “Our security force capacity building tasks are in maintenance mode because I want to keep as many people healthy as possible to receive vaccines without delay.”

Lt.-Col Lake said the Canadian soldiers knew this was a risk of deploying to Ukraine but the contingent is young, healthy and was screened for pre-existing risk factors so it’s less likely to be significantly affected by COVID-19.

“We are a younger, healthy population screened prior to deployment for pre-existing risk factors and we all very much understood the risks. The two previous rotations had deployed during the pandemic without being vaccinated,” she said.

“Although a lot of people have been exposed to it, everybody has recovered well”

She lauded the deployed soldiers who are doing what they can under the circumstances. “People are working from quarantine, and isolation and doing what they can do to contribute.”

Lt. Col-Lake said she caught COVID-19 within a week of arrival. She recalls a “really fuzzy head and it got into my chest a bit.”

Like other soldiers, her concern was not infecting others. “The waves of fatigue were challenging to work through but I could still work through it from my room,” she said.

The majority of the deployed Canadian soldiers were not vaccinated ahead of their Ukraine mission because the Forces have been working on administering COVID-19 doses to what military leadership had determined were higher priority members. These include front-line health care providers in higher risk settings or who have health conditions themselves that might make them vulnerable to severe forms of COVID-19. It also included first responders, support personnel and those supporting the delivery of vaccine to remote or high-risk areas.

Deployed soldiers are rated “Priority 3″ on the Forces’ vaccination schedule. Lt.-Col. Lake said this prioritization makes sense to her because of the relatively younger age of of deployed Forces members. She said, for instance, she’s happy Canada has focused on vaccinating those who are more vulnerable first including her older Canadians like her parents.

“Although a lot of people have been exposed to it, everybody has had pretty good outcomes.”

Ukraine itself in the middle of a devastating third wave of the pandemic, recording a new daily high of 17,479 cases on Thursday. According to Oxford University’s Our World in Data website, Ukraine currently has just over 328 COVID-19 cases per million people, compared with 231 cases per million in Canada and 313 per million in hard-hit Brazil.

The third wave – believed to largely be the new variant first discovered in the United Kingdom – has also been the deadliest. More than 300 people have died from COVID-19 every day in April so far, including a record 438 deaths on Thursday.

Lt.-Col Lake said her illness prevented her from attending a recent meeting with NATO’s top general, Air Chief Marshall Sir Stuart Peach but Lt.-Col Heer stood in for her. “We are good friends and very supportive of each other.”

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, told The Globe that Ukraine’s COVID suffering had been exacerbated by a health care system that was in the middle of carrying out reforms when the pandemic hit.

Another factor has been loose observance – especially outside Kyiv – of lockdowns intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In the eastern city of Kharkiv, The Globe saw cafés and restaurants openly defying a government order to close, while signs calling for face masks to be worn are routinely ignored both in Kyiv and the regions.

Mr. Podolyak said a year of on-and-off lockdowns has been particularly difficult in Ukraine, a country that was already struggling economically. “We are not the richest country, and we have less funds to support vulnerable groups during the pandemic,” he said in an interview at the presidential administration building in Kyiv. “We are facing resistance when we propose lockdowns.”

Ukraine has also been slow to secure vaccines, and polls show that nearly half of Ukrainians – a nation of vaccine sceptics even before the COVID-19 outbreak – say they won’t take the medicines. When the first batch of AstraZeneca doses arrived last month, there were reports of doses being thrown away because doctors and other medical professionals, who were the first to be offered vaccines, were skipping their appointments.

Taras Berezovets, a Kyiv-based political analyst whose mother died two months ago from COVID-19, said that the country’s handling of the pandemic had been “a catastrophe from the very beginning.” He said there were no beds available in the besieged public health care system, and that even the country’s private hospitals were overbooked. “Even if you have money, it’s not possible to find a hospital bed.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-covid-19-outbreak-hits-canadian-soldiers-deployed-in-ukraine/

by **Spider** Fri 03 Dec 2021, 9:46 am

‘Diplomacy has to lead’ in Ukraine crisis, Chief of Defence Staff says

Dec 03. 2021

Canada has no plans to send additional troops to Ukraine amid its escalating border crisis with Russia, as the head of the Canadian military acknowledged worries that an expanded NATO presence in Ukraine could provoke, rather than deter, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

There are widespread fears that Mr. Putin may be considering wider military action against Russia’s neighbour, which Moscow has been trying to wrest back into its orbit since a pro-Western revolution in Kyiv seven years ago. Russia has amassed an invasion-sized force near its borders with Ukraine for the second time this year.

The Globe and Mail reported last week that Canada was considering a show of support for Ukraine in the crisis, possibly by sending additional troops to bolster the 200-soldier Operation Unifier training mission, or by sailing a warship into the Black Sea.

However, Chief of Defence Staff Wayne Eyre said during a Thursday visit to Kyiv that he was concerned that any new military backing for Ukraine could inflame the situation. Mr. Putin recently stated that any expansion of the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s presence in the country would cross a “red line” for Russia, which considers Ukraine to be part of its so-called “sphere of influence.”

“In a case like this, diplomacy has to lead. We’ve got to be very careful,” Gen. Eyre said in an interview with The Globe before a day of meetings with his Ukrainian counterparts. “What we’re doing with Operation Unifier … shows long-term commitment [to Ukraine]. But we’ve got to be very careful about the balance between deterrence and escalation, and what is the perception from the other side as well. That’s where diplomacy absolutely has to lead in a case like this.”

Canada also has 540 troops deployed to Latvia, another neighbour of Russia, where it leads a multinational battle group tasked with deterring any hostile moves against the tiny Baltic country. Latvia, unlike Ukraine, is a member of the NATO alliance.

Asked whether Canada’s reluctance to send additional troops to Ukraine meant that Mr. Putin’s warnings were being taken seriously, Gen. Eyre replied “you’ve always got to take potential adversaries seriously. Wars have started because of potential miscalculations before, throughout history.”

Canada is not alone in hoping diplomacy can deter Russia, which, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, has amassed around 115,000 troops – backed by “tanks, artillery, electronic warfare systems, air and naval units” – along its borders with Ukraine, including in the occupied Crimean Peninsula. At the start of a Thursday meeting in Stockholm, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that “diplomacy is the only responsible way to resolve this crisis, and we stand fully ready to support it.”

But the two men ended their meeting after just 30 minutes, with no indication that any substantive agreements had been reached.

Russia seized and annexed Crimea after the 2014 revolution in Kyiv, and a Moscow-backed militia has battled the Ukrainian army in the southeastern Donbas region since then. The latter conflict has killed more than 13,000 people on both sides.

Mr. Blinken called on Russia to “respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity to de-escalate” by pulling its military back from the border. He warned his Russian counterpart that the U.S. and its allies would impose harsh new economic penalties on Moscow if it took military action against Ukraine.

The Kremlin argues that it is not provoking the crisis. Russian officials say their military buildup is necessary because they believe Ukraine may be preparing to try to retake the Donbas region by force, something the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly denied. Denis Pushilin, the head of the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic, said his government could ask Moscow for military assistance in the event of a Ukrainian assault.

Videos posted by social-media users on Thursday appeared to show heavy weapons fire erupting along the frontline in Donbas shortly after Mr. Blinken and Mr. Lavrov ended their meeting on the sidelines of a conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

The main concession Moscow is seeking from the crisis is a guarantee that NATO – which has expanded to include much of Eastern Europe in the three decades since the end of the Cold War – won’t invite Ukraine to join the alliance, or deploy any offensive weaponry into the country. But NATO and the Ukrainian government have countered that Russia cannot have a veto over whether the country is invited to join the 30-country alliance.

Mr. Lavrov warned that such an approach would lead to confrontation. “I want to make it crystal clear: turning our neighbours into a bridgehead for confrontation with Russia, the deployment of NATO forces in the regions strategically important for our security is categorically unacceptable,” he told OSCE foreign ministers ahead of his meeting with Mr. Blinken. “Long-term and legally binding security guarantees,” about the limits of NATO expansion were “imperative to prevent sliding into a confrontational scenario,” he said.

In a statement sent to The Globe, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Ukraine welcomed the efforts of other countries to mediate, but “there must be no agreements made on Ukraine without Ukraine.” He added that Ukraine stood ready to fight “should Moscow decide to launch a new wave of aggression,” and that Ukraine’s military was far better prepared than in 2014, when Russia seized Crimea without a fight.

Anatoliy Hrytsenko, an independent Ukrainian MP and former defence minister, said that while he was skeptical that Mr. Putin intended to order a full-scale invasion, the Russian leader was probing to see how far the West would let him go.

“He is intimidating the West, which is not ready to fight, neither for itself nor for Ukraine,” Mr. Hrytsenko told The Globe this week. “Putin … will continue to intimidate until he encounters strength and a real readiness to counter with force in the event of aggression.”

Gen. Eyre, whose visit to Kyiv coincided with the 30th anniversary of Canada’s recognition of Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union, said Canada was not backing away from its support of the country.

“I’m here. We’ve got 200-plus troops that are here – one of the largest, if not the largest foreign training missions here. Ukraine is our number one recipient of our military co-operation training program. So, on balance, it’s a pretty strong show of support.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mr. Zelensky were also due to speak by phone on Thursday to mark the anniversary of Canada’s becoming the second country in the world, after Poland, to recognize the fledgling Ukrainian state.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

by Covert Fri 10 Dec 2021, 6:43 am

Will Canada help save Ukraine?

By Justin Ling
December 9, 2021

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https://www.macleans.ca/politics/will-canada-help-save-ukraine/

by Covert Mon 10 Jan 2022, 7:51 am

Canada making plans to build ammo factory in Ukraine amid tensions with Russia

David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date: Jan 10, 2022

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by Lux4795 Mon 17 Jan 2022, 4:26 pm

Canada deploys special forces to Ukraine amid rising tensions with Russia

By Alex Boutilier , Mercedes Stephenson & David Baxter Global News
Posted January 17, 2022

https://globalnews.ca/news/8517110/canada-special-forces-ukraine-russia/

by **Replica** Tue 01 Mar 2022, 5:52 am

Canada to provide anti-tank weapons to Ukraine

No details on when the equipment will reach Ukraine were released for security reasons.

David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date: Feb 28, 2022

The Canadian military will be providing 100 anti-tank weapons plus 2,000 rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, the Liberal government announced Monday.

No details on when the equipment will reach Ukraine were released for security reasons.

“We will be supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapon systems and upgraded ammunition,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

The equipment, Carl Gustaf anti-tank systems, will come from the Canadian military’s inventory.

In addition, some 2,000 rounds of ammunition for the Carl Gustaf systems will be provided.

Trudeau said 100 systems were being sent. Defence Minister Anita Anand said 125 would be sent. National Defence released a statement indicating that the number of systems being provided to Ukraine is “at least 100 and we are continually assessing.”

The Canadian Army’s 84mm Carl Gustaf is a portable shoulder-fired weapon manufactured by the Swedish firm, Saab. Depending on the ammunition used it has a range of between 500 metres and 700 metres.

Ukraine has been asking for anti-tank systems for months.

Some of Canada’s allies have already provided Ukraine with anti-tank missiles. The Carl Gustaf anti-tank systems are seen as older technology but are still considered effective.

Liberal cabinet ministers announced on Sunday that Canada would also provide $25 million in non-lethal aid. But that gear, which includes helmets, gas masks and night vision goggles, won’t come from Canadian Forces equipment inventory. Instead, the Canadian government’s procurement system will buy the equipment from various companies and suppliers.

It is unclear when those purchases will be made and when they might be delivered to Ukraine.

Global Affairs Canada did not respond to a request for comment on that issue.

Canada provided Ukraine with lethal aid on Feb. 19 and Feb. 22, just days before the Russian invasion.

Anand insists that equipment, which included .50-calibre sniper rifles, 60-millimetre mortars, grenade launchers, pistols, ammunition, machine-guns and thermal-imaging binoculars, arrived in time to be put to effective use. But some Canadian Forces personnel privately dispute that, noting that Ukrainian troops would not have had time to train on such equipment before the Russians launched their invasion.

The previous Conservative government examined in 2015 the possibility of providing anti-tank weapons to Ukraine. Jason Kenney, then Conservative defence minister, ordered the Canadian Forces to conduct an inventory of weapons that could be shipped to the eastern European nation. Those included a stockpile of more than 5,000 Eryx anti-tank missiles and specialized armoured vehicles.

But Canadian military planners determined that none of that surplus gear would be useful. Since Ukraine’s soldiers were equipped mainly with Russian-designed weapons, armaments sent from Canada could not be used, Kenney explained at the time. In addition, there would be issues with spare parts and maintenance.

Instead, the Eryx anti-tank missiles were destroyed.

The Canadian Forces has also earmarked two C-130J aircraft for NATO use in transporting equipment to Poland. From there the gear would be distributed to Ukraine. The first Canadian aircraft left on Monday and another is expected to leave later this week.

The Canadian Forces, which already has soldiers in Latvia as part of the NATO mission, will send additional personnel and artillery to that country. That will take about a month to arrange.

HMCS Halifax will also leave Canada to bolster NATO forces in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, but that frigate won’t leave until towards the end of March. It won’t be in the region until sometime in April, according to the Department of National Defence.

Twenty-five military personnel from an electronic warfare unit from Kingston, Ont. will also be sent to Latvia. In addition, an Aurora surveillance aircraft will be made available.

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Up to Canadians whether they fight for Ukraine foreign legion, Foreign Minister says

STEVEN CHASESENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says it’s up to individual Canadians to decide whether they want to join Ukraine’s new foreign legion to help the country fight the Russian invasion.

As Moscow’s forces are laying siege to the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the formation of an “international legion” of volunteers to help defend Ukraine.

Ms. Joly in a news conference on Sunday reiterated that the government has warned against travelling to Ukraine because of the insecurity there. But she says Canadians can decide if they want to join the fight.

“We understand that people of Ukrainian descent want to support their fellow Ukrainians and also that there is a desire to defend the motherland and in that sense it is their own individual decision,” Ms. Joly told reporters at a news conference Sunday. “Let me be clear: we are all very supportive of any form of support to Ukrainians right now.”

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she would support British citizens who decide to head to Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion.

On Sunday, Ottawa announced it would be sending $25-million in non-lethal gear to Ukraine. Ms. Joly said this includes helmets, body armour, gas masks and night-vision goggles.

And Defence Minister Anita Anand said more weapons shipments to Ukraine are “not off the table.” Canada recently shipped $7.8-million in lethal aid to Ukraine.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday invited foreigners to join the fight against Russia. He urged people around the world to contact their local Ukrainian embassy to enlist.

“Foreigners willing to defend Ukraine and world order as part of the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, I invite you to contact foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine in your respective countries.”

Ottawa also announced Sunday that it would be lending additional airlift – two Hercules C-130s – support to be used by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in delivering aid to Ukraine, Ms. Anand said. Further, Canada is lending cybersecurity to experts to help protect Ukraine’s infrastructure from cyberattacks, she said.

The Defence Minister emphasized that Canadian soldiers are not being deployed to fight Russia in Ukraine.

“To those asking whether Canada will send troops to fight in Ukraine, a combat mission is not on the table at this time,” Ms. Anand said. “Nor is it on the table for our allies, including the United States.”

Ottawa, however, has announced plans to deploy 460 more Canadian Armed Forces personnel to Europe as part of NATO’s reassurance campaign to demonstrate it’s ready to defend the military alliance’s eastern flank that borders Russia.

Ottawa is sending an artillery battery of 120 gunners in the weeks ahead as well as an additional frigate and surveillance aircraft. This is on top of about 800 soldiers, sailors and air personnel already part of the NATO effort to deter Russian aggression and expansionism in Europe. Canada has led a multinational battlegroup in Latvia for nearly five years.

Ottawa has placed 3,400 military personnel on standby for deployment to Europe if necessary as part of a NATO response force should they be needed to defend member countries of the alliance. Ms. Anand reminded Canadians of NATO’s collective-defence arrangement where “an attack on one is an attack on all.”

Ms. Anand denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put his nuclear deterrent forces on high alert as “bellicose and irresponsible rhetoric.”

Ms. Joly also appealed to Canadians to help counter what she called Russia’s propaganda machine, telling them to send photos or videos of the attack on Ukraine to their friends or relatives in Russia.

“The Russian regime has a powerful propaganda machine that is selling falsehoods and lies about their motivations and invasion of Ukraine.”

The Foreign Affairs Minister said Ottawa is expediting the delivery of non-lethal gear to Ukraine in co-operation with Poland.

Kyiv remained in Ukrainian government hands Sunday, with Mr. Zelensky rallying his people daily despite Russian shelling of civilian infrastructure.

As missiles fell on Ukrainian cities, nearly 400,000 civilians, mainly women and children, have fled into neighbouring countries. Hundreds were stranded in Kyiv on Sunday waiting for trains to take them west, away from the fighting.

Ms. Joly said Mr. Putin is behaving irrationally. “Nobody who decides to bombard a sovereign nation can be rational in doing so.”

Ms. Anand was asked Sunday whether Canada and the United States would expedite the planned modernization of the U.S.-Canadian North Warning System that is supposed to detect incoming threats to the continent. The price tag for this upgrade is expected to exceed $10-billion. She said she’s had a number of conversations with her U.S. counterpart on the project. “The bottom line is we will remain firm and unwavering in defending Canada’s sovereignty.”

Ms. Joly accused Mr. Putin of trying to divide the NATO alliance and said he has achieved the opposite, noting the increasingly harsh sanctions being applied to Russia including efforts to cut off the country from the SWIFT international payments system.

“We are working together to suffocate the Russian regime,” the Foreign Affairs Minister said. “Measures that were described as a last resort just days ago are now moving forward with consensus.”

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by TangoZulu77 Wed 02 Mar 2022, 9:12 pm

Canadian military to extend stay of artillery unit in Latvia

The deployment of the unit, with 120 personnel, was only to be for six weeks. But those timelines have now changed.

David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date: Mar 02, 2022

Canada will extend the stay of an artillery unit it is sending to Latvia as part of efforts to bolster NATO in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The deployment of the unit, with 120 personnel, was only to be for six weeks. But those timelines have now changed.

“Current planning is for that artillery battery to deploy for three months,” National Defence spokesperson Dan Le Bouthillier said. “After that, Canadian Armed Forces will be looking at deploying a group for a six-month rotation.”

The soldiers being sent to Latvia are coming from Valcartier, Que.

The Canadian military had artillery units deployed in Latvia in 2017. Those were eventually replaced by units from NATO nations as part of regularly scheduled rotations.

The artillery unit should be ready to go to Latvia by the end of March, according to the Canadian military.

“We understand the urgency of these contributions and we are working diligently towards a safe and timely deployment,” Le Bouthillier explained. “Planning for the artillery battery is underway. These 30 days are essential as preparations are underway to ensure the members are operationally ready to deploy.”

HMCS Halifax will also leave Canada to bolster NATO forces in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, but that frigate won’t leave until towards the end of March. It won’t be in the region until sometime in April, according to the Department of National Defence.

Twenty-five military personnel from an electronic warfare unit have also been assigned to Latvia. Members from 21 Electronic Warfare Regiment from Kingston, Ont., were already deployed to Latvia as part of a bi-annual technical assistance visit, which began in early January 2022, Le Bouthillier said. They were expected to finish their mission by the end of March.

But they will continue to stay in Latvia for the foreseeable future, Le Bouthillier said.

“The team is comprised of specialists including signal operators and signal intelligence specialists who identify threats on the electronic spectrum,” he added. “Their aim is to gather intelligence, detect threats, protect our assets (equipment, vehicles, infrastructure) from attack, and employ electronic weapons against enemy threats.”

In addition, an Aurora surveillance aircraft will be made available.

Le Bouthillier said there are no details on when that aircraft will be made available to NATO.

The Canadian Forces has also earmarked two C-130J aircraft for NATO use in transporting equipment to Poland. It will also be providing 100 anti-tank weapons plus 2,000 rounds of ammunition to Ukraine as well as more protective vests for troops. No details on when the equipment will reach Ukraine were released for security reasons.

Canada had previously provided Ukraine with lethal aid on Feb. 19 and Feb. 22, just days before the Russian invasion. Defence Minister Anita Anand has insisted that equipment, which included .50-calibre sniper rifles, 60-millimetre mortars, grenade launchers, pistols, ammunition, machine-guns and thermal-imaging binoculars, arrived in time to be put to effective use. But some Canadian Forces personnel privately dispute that, noting that Ukrainian troops would not have had time to train on such equipment before the Russians launched their invasion.

In addition, Liberal cabinet ministers announced on Sunday that Canada would also provide $25 million in non-lethal aid. But that gear, which includes helmets, gas masks and night vision goggles, won’t come from Canadian Forces equipment inventory. Instead, the Canadian government’s procurement system will buy the equipment from various companies and suppliers.

It is unclear when those purchases will be made and when they might be delivered to Ukraine.

Global Affairs Canada would not comment on this initiative. But some inside National Defence have raised concerns about whether the federal government’s procurement system will be successful in acquiring the gear in a timely manner.

Defence Watch

by Oliver Thu 03 Mar 2022, 6:20 am

Canadians prepare to fight in Ukraine as legal questions, security concerns swirl

Published Wednesday, March 2, 2022

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by Riverway Fri 04 Mar 2022, 6:38 am

Under a foreign flag: Canadian veterans explain why they're fighting for Ukraine

Murray Brewster, Ashley Burke · CBC News · Posted: Mar 04, 2022

Ukraine / Latvia - Page 4 Veterans-volunteer-for-ukraine

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by **Accer** Wed 09 Mar 2022, 2:17 pm

I'm a veteran who trained Ukrainian soldiers. They've taught me the meaning of resiliency

Andriy Tovstiuk · for CBC First Person · Posted: Mar 09, 2022

Ukraine / Latvia - Page 4 Andriy-tovstiuk

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-andriy-tovstiuk-1.6377709

by **Braven** Wed 16 Mar 2022, 7:59 am

Experts warn that Canadian weapons shipped to Ukraine could end up in the wrong hands

Nick Boisvert · CBC News · Posted: Mar 16, 2022

Ukraine / Latvia - Page 4 Russia-ukraine-war

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by Oliver Thu 17 Mar 2022, 6:53 pm

HMCS Halifax to deploy Saturday as part of NATO support for Ukraine

Brett Ruskin · CBC News · Posted: Mar 17, 2022

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by **Accer** Tue 22 Mar 2022, 2:00 pm

'I'm alive': Former Canadian Forces sniper debunks rumours of his death in Ukraine

Ashley Burke, Sylvia Thomson · CBC News · Posted: Mar 22, 2022

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by Mojave Thu 24 Mar 2022, 9:20 pm

Legal questions abound for Canadians volunteering to fight in Ukraine

Published Thursday, March 24, 2022

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by Oliver Wed 30 Mar 2022, 9:13 am

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