National Defence committee  Thank you very much.

National Defence committee  I think the dream of Mr. Putin is to create something similar to the Soviet Union. For him, as quite an aged and experienced man, that would probably be the masterpiece of his whole life. He is probably trying to finalize his tour of duty as President of Russia with a very big an

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, sir. Honourable chair of the committee, members of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen, I'm grateful to you for giving me this opportunity to represent our Ukrainian understanding of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. Has something changed in Russian dee

National Defence committee  Thank you very much.

National Defence committee  Yes. I would like to add that in the beginning of 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea, it was only the first step in the further development of the situation by military means. The essential question for them was to get ground corridor transportation to Crimea throughout t

National Defence committee  Yes, of course. I can provide you with some assessment. In my personal opinion, Russia is like a mother-in-law. Once Russia sees that Ukraine is going to the European Union, to NATO, Russia becomes mad. Not only Russia, but Mr. Putin becomes mad. For me, the brightest example o

National Defence committee  Ukraine is waiting for an agreement to a political accord among the European Union countries because what is going on in Europe now is quite a sophisticated process. We are following news from Spain, from Italy. We heard what happened to Montenegro a few months ago and those are

National Defence committee  Europe has its own opinion, and we would like this opinion to be a little stronger.

National Defence committee  Yes. It could be very useful for our situational awareness because we really need this information to better understand what is going in the temporarily uncontrolled territory of Ukraine, over their temporarily uncontrolled border between Russia and Ukraine of approximately 400 k

National Defence committee  Yes, definitely. It's an incredible opportunity to share this practical experience of how to fight in modern conditions. We are talking now about cyber, about hybrid war, but real, practical, modern combat is more visible, something more practical for soldiers to survive. For i

National Defence committee  Of course, the training that Canada is providing the Ukraine now, with Operation Unifier, is very important. In April 2017, during the visit of our defence minister Stepan Poltorak to Canada, during the negotiations we agreed to increase the level of training, for instance, from

National Defence committee  It's a little difficult to add something very practical to what my colleagues have said, but I would say that Ukraine has successfully survived the crash test from three years ago, in 2014. Since that time we have had more than 7,000 cyber-attacks, and now we more or less underst

National Defence committee  Yes, of course. A future peacekeeping mission would be a turning point for the modern history of Europe. If Canada and NATO partners could all play a vital role in this future mission, it would save the situation because the worst-case scenario of the movement of Russia towards t

National Defence committee  I would add that Canada now plays a vital role and is completely involved and committed in relation to Ukraine. I would appreciate if next year, 2018, would be even more successful with the presidency of Canada in the G7.

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon, dear friends. My name is Colonel Viktor Siromakha. Unifier is our best achievement. I would say that compared to Orbital, the U.K. mission in Ukraine, and JMTG-U—the U.S. guys—Ukraine Unifier has the exact capacity to bring to the Ukraine armed forces exactly w