Ottawa will continue pressure on Russia, including through economic sanctions, according to Canada's FM.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada on Friday said her country would allocate $4.65 million to support training for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Today, to help reinforce Ukraine’s resilience, I am announcing $4.65 million to support training for the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF)," she said in a statement issued Friday, on the fourth anniversary of the illegal annexation of Crimea.
This funding will provide equipment to support first aid and military police training to the UAF, she stated.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, Canada in March 2017 extended until the end of March 2019 the mission of their military instructors within Operation UNIFIER aimed to train Ukrainian troops
On January 18, 2018, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that Canadian instructors had contributed to training 5,000 Ukrainian military, with 160 snipers and another 120 troops having undergone additional training in combat first aid.