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CBC News: 90 Canadian troops to leave for Ukraine as military looks to resume mission

By CBC News.

Published June 15, 2020 at 2:02 am

Ukrainian soldiers receive drone training from Canadian and American members of the military on the Yavoriv Polygon, on June 20, 2017.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

The Canadian Armed Forces is deploying military trainers back to Ukraine as it looks to restart some of the many missions and exercises temporarily suspended or scaled back because of COVID-19. Canada first deployed around 200 troops to Ukraine to train local forces in the basics of soldiering in 2015, but that mission and several others were suspended in early April as COVID-19 forced countries around the world into lockdown.