Canada to send 40 combat engineers to Poland to train Ukraine soldiers

The Canadian government said on Tuesday it will send 40 more combat engineers to help support Polish efforts to train Ukrainian forces, as part of its commitment to increasing military aid for Ukraine.

The Canadian Armed Forces have trained more than 33,000 Ukrainian military and security personnel since 2015, but have paused aspects of the training effort since February.

"Canada will deploy approximately 40 combat engineers to Poland to help Polish Forces train Ukrainian sappers on engineer reconnaissance, explosives, mining and de-mining," Canada's Defence Minister Anita Anand told a news conference in Warsaw.

Canadian forces have also helped the Polish military and government in supporting refugee reception centres and have helped support Britain-based training programs.

Anand said the additional training "will complement Canadian training of new Ukrainian recruits in the United Kingdom, and Canadian training of Ukrainian personnel on the use of the M777 howitzers that we donated to Ukraine."

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[jamesskinner]

So does this mean our days as peacekeepers are over?

[darrylcote]

We should send trudy and his entire cabinet to the front lines for leadership ofcourse...

[gtpc]

I've never understood why politician smile in this kind of situation.

[miked.]

getting involved in World war 3 this early might not be a good play.

[keithsdrinker]

Maybe the politicians should be deployed!

[tracer]

We should be sending negotiators not soldiers. End this war stop escalating it. Peace is the answer

[vancouversure]

But first they need 6 months of gender sensitivity training and some nail polish.

[donshiell]

Canada should stay out of this mess we have our own problems

[primmakinsofis]

Virtue signalling or money laundering?

Maybe both?

[someonewhoisnotretarded]

So uh... according to Canada's own logic, this now makes Canada a legitimate Russian target.

[kaizersouza]

Send these crooked politicians and put them on the frontline.

[Chris-nxmn]

R.I.P. I hope we are only sending the people who have had those Ukraine flags in their social media biographies

[cheehincheong]

we should send the whole family of defense minister on training instead of our Canadian children.

[ourdailybread]

Trubro, just take care of your own people first, they're starving and dying in the streets.

[gfkgfk]

I don't remember giving the Government of Canada permission to fight a proxy war as a Canadian citizen. I don't believe we were asked. Gov works for us!

[trtinda]

great drag canada into this, thanks Justin

[dorianosatane]

I see in the comments that you are not satisfied with it, but I, as a Pole, thank you Canadian for any help in these difficult moments for us .. remember that you live peacefully across the ocean and the war is a few kilometers from our border: / I greet you brothers from Canada

[dralgon]

send these 40 more combat engineers to clean the streets near city hall

[assassind]

This is a bad joke. We dont need to get involved in another conflict we can't afford and has literally nothing to do with us.

[JackieBillyTom]

how about training them how to negotiate you despicable warhawks