Bill Blair cites concerns over the safety of Western soldiers in Ukraine, which has been under a full-scale military assault from Russia for more than two years
National Defence Minister Bill Blair speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on June 17.The Canadian government does not believe the time is right to send troops to Ukraine to train soldiers but is not ruling out doing so in the future, the Defence Minister says.
“At the present time, the circumstances are not right to deploy, in my view, the Canadian trainers in Ukraine,” Mr. Blair said.are currently training Ukrainian troops in Latvia, Poland, Britain and at home, in Canada. Over the years, Canada has trained 40,000 of them, starting in Western Ukraine back in 2015.ahead of the 2022 invasion of the country – much of which Russia has the capacity to strike with its missiles and glide bombs.
“There is, I think, quite an understandable concern about expanding a training mission into Ukraine at the current time.”
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