Canada considers giving Azov Battalion further assistance

Revelation that Canadian support for the Ukrainian military has gone toward helping far-right extremists hasn't stopped the Defence Ministry from entertaining sending more troops to Ukraine

Members of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion take up positions beside a Ukrainian National Guard tank in 2014. (Creative Commons)

New Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand is contemplating the deployment of hundreds more Canadian troops to western Ukraine to assist in training a Ukrainian military that includes the avowedly neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

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