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National Defence committee Sure. As you know, there have been several attempts to have these grain deals brokered by the United Nations and others. Ukraine's role as the supplier of the global south, particularly the Middle East and African countries, for wheat, sunflower oil and other essential—
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee There are several processes going on that are led by Ukraine and that Canada has been supporting. First is the war crimes and genocide prosecution through the International Criminal Court. The second process that Ukraine is pursuing, which I'm sure many of you have heard about,
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee I hope so. I mean, I think that the evidence is there from speeches and from a media perspective in terms of who was encouraging, supporting and boosting the committing of these crimes and how they're being portrayed as great Russian victories.
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee I don't have the details. I know they were focusing on the ones that were nearly built or that were being built very close to the time of the announcement, as opposed to just sort of being started from scratch. It's been a matter of media speculation, and I think that for operati
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee I don't.
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee If I can I just chime in on the support programs, I was at the Invictus event last night with some of the members here, and it's beyond just the training of the test pilots. I think there is a real scope.... Ukraine is a country of veterans and of families of survivors of those
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee There's a great meme going around that says nobody has done more to increase support for Ukraine's membership than Vladimir Putin. It is very clear that Ukraine has decided that its future is going to be in the European Union, in the Euro-Atlantic alliance in some form, immediate
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
National Defence committee Thank you. I'll split my time with my colleague, but I'll begin. Again, thank you for the invitation to be here before this committee. As you know, the UCC is the voice of Canada's Ukrainian community. When we talk about the war, I think that, as you know, it's important to unde
April 21st, 2023Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee —checks food safety for the European Union is also in place. I'm not an expert on the issue, but it seems to be functioning fairly well.
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee The most important things that Canada can do to support Ukraine are, one, deliver weapons to the Ukrainian military and, two, assist the Ukrainian government in being able to meet its budgetary requirements. Trade is one of the ways in which we can help with the second of those t
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee In terms of access to electricity, it depends entirely on how frequently and where the Russians strike Ukrainian infrastructure with missile attacks. There's been a marked increase in attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the last six weeks or so. It's the same with water
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee There is the European Union and the United Kingdom, and there may be more. Again, I am not an expert on this issue—
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee —but certainly the European Union and the U.K.
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee I believe so, yes.
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky
Agriculture committee Do you mean geographically?
November 30th, 2022Committee meeting
Orest Zakydalsky