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Canadian government changes tune on Azov

DND no longer denies arms may have wound up in the hands of Ukrainian far-right extremists

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Jeremy Appel
Sep 07, 2022
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A member of the far-right Azov Battalion at its Kiev headquarters in 2013. (Noah Brooks)

The Department of National Defence won't say for certain that Canada's arms shipments to Ukraine haven't gone towards far-right extremists, including the notorious Azov Regiment.

This contradicts the government's assertion in March that "the Canadian Armed Forces have…

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