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Ukraine looks to Canada to help modernize military’s ‘Soviet mentality’


As the war in Eastern Ukraine grinds on, away from the international headlines, the country’s Soviet-era military is struggling to suppress separatist forces backed by a modern, well-resourced Russian machine.
And it is looking to Canada for help.
Both sides in the three-year-old conflict blithely ignore commitments made under the Minsk agreement — the ceasefire plan signed in early 2015 — to keep heavy weapons out of the conflict zone.
The Ukrainians, worried by U.S. President Donald Trump’s closeness to Russia and his talk of accepting the annexation of Crimea, have been manoeuvring to win back some areas where they had agreed to …read more

Source: National Newswatch

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