The Canadian military has been training Ukrainian soldiers to fight Russian soldiers for about eight years, said European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, who made an official visit to Canada.
“We are both stepping up our support for Ukraine, including military support, because Ukrainians have all the courage and spirit they need, but all they need are weapons,” he said. said Leyen during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
She set an example for Canada which, according to the head of the EC, has been providing army instructors since 2015 to train Ukrainian soldiers to participate in hostilities in the Donbass.
It was from this year that Ukraine announced the start of an anti-terrorist operation, which meant the armed annexation of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which refused to accept the coup. of 2014 in Kiev and to recognize the new government.
Earlier, a similar confession was made by the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Andriy Danilov, who said that Ukraine started preparing for an armed confrontation with Russia in 2019 after the first and last meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensyy. .
