(Reuters) – Canada has deployed a small contingent of special forces operators to Ukraine, Canada’s Global News reported on Monday, after safety talks final week ended and not using a breakthrough in resolving tensions between Moscow and Kyiv.
Russia has stationed greater than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine, and the United States stated on Friday it was involved that Russia was making ready a pretext to invade if diplomacy failed to meet its targets.
The Canadian special operations presence is an element of an try by NATO allies to deter Russian aggression in Ukraine, and to determine methods to help the Ukrainian authorities, Global News reported, citing unspecified sources.
The unit has additionally been tasked with serving to to develop evacuation plans for Canadian diplomatic personnel within the occasion of a full-scale invasion, Global News stated.
A spokesperson for the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command stated it couldn’t verify the report, however stated it has supported the Ukrainian safety forces on a periodic foundation since autumn of 2020.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly was in Kyiv to focus on efforts to deter “aggressive actions” by Russia and met Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal on Monday.
Canada, which has the world’s third-largest Ukrainian inhabitants after Ukraine and Russia, has maintained a 200-strong coaching mission in western Ukraine since 2015.
On Sunday, it urged Canadians to keep away from non-essential journey to Ukraine, in a brand new advisory citing “Russian aggression.”
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Editing by Howard Goller)
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