Canada’s high-profile delivery of military supplies to Ukraine in the summer of 2014 appears to have been planned and executed under pressure from the prime minister in only 10 days, according to internal documents.
A few months after the Russian annexation of Crimea, as conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-supported separatist rebels in the east of Ukraine heated up, Canadian bureaucrats were sent scrambling to co-ordinate assistance, say documents obtained through an access-to-information request.
Initial actions on providing “non-lethal security assistance” appear to have been taken in the early hours of the morning on July 30. According to emails, the defence …read more
Source: National Newswatch
