The Canadian Forces announced today that the new commander of Joint Task Force-Ukraine, Lieutenant-Colonel Wayne Niven, assumed command from Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Arsenault during a ceremony at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Starychi, Ukraine, as part of Operation Unifier. Op Unifier is Canada’s military training mission in Ukraine.
More from the Canadian Forces news release:
As commander of JTF-U, Lieutenant-Colonel Niven commands approximately 200 Canadian Forces personnel with the mission to conduct training with the Ukrainian military in areas such as Small Team training, which consists of individual weapons training; marksmanship; communication; survival; and ethics training. Since the start of the …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
