‘Non-combat’ military trainers could return to Ukraine — but not yet: Blair
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Canada will consider sending soldiers to Ukraine in a non-combat role to resume training if 'certain conditions' are met, but not yet, Defence Minister Bill Blair says.
Canada will consider sending military trainers back to Ukraine if “certain conditions” are met, but those conditions “do not yet exist,” Defence Minister Bill Blair says.
Any Canadian military members would only be sent in “non-combat” roles, he added.
Blair made the comments during a news conference at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton. Blair was announcing $43 million in upgrades to the base.
The defence minister says conditions will need to “change” in Ukraine before Canadian troops can return to the war-torn nation, where they had been training Ukrainian soldiers on the ground prior to the Russian invasion.
Blair recently returned from a visit to the country to mark the second anniversary of the war.
“Right now, circumstances are not appropriate for that training to take place in Ukraine, but we’re going to continue to train,” Blair told reporters.
Canada has trained more than 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers as part of Operation Unifier, which began in 2015 after Russia annexed Crimea.
But the Canadian military moved its training operations to the United Kingdom, Latvia and Poland following the Russian invasion.
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