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Canadians take part in NATO war games aimed at sending message to Russia over Ukraine aggression


CAMP DOIRON, Romania — Would Canadians have reckoned 16 months ago infantrymen from a base in the Ottawa Valley would be climbing a hill on the edge of the Transylvanian Alps to attack a Romanian position in war games aimed at deterring Russian aggression?
But there they were, a platoon from the Royal Canadian Regiment in Petawawa, Ont., dressed in war paint and combat camouflage exchanging fire with a Romanian heavy machine gun mounted on a Soviet-era armoured personnel carrier as U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters patrolled nearby.
The Canadian army has maintained a modest, but persistent presence in eastern Europe since …read more

Source: National Post

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