Speaking at the 52nd Annual Shevchenko lecture in Edmonton, March 9, Andreas Umland, an associate professor of European studies at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine, suggested Canada can use its influence within NATO to help Ukraine enter into a security agreement with other East European countries.
What he had in mind would be a regional security structure which would include three non-NATO countries—Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, all of whom have been subjected to Russian aggression—with the regional NATO group known as the Bucharest Nine (B9).
