Foreign Affairs committee  In this current reality, it's quite hard to start with a really good exchange of good visits of professionals, analysts and operators from Canada and from Ukraine. That's why we really need this reliable, secure channel of communication and a varied focus, especially on security

Foreign Affairs committee  I absolutely agree with you on this issue, and I must commend you. In one assessment here in Canada, I saw that cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure objects like heating systems or water systems in Canada could be even worse with all the consequences of COVID-19. That's going

Foreign Affairs committee  Since 2014, Ukraine has already received a lot from Canada, and it was timely and the exact assistance that we had been desperately waiting for. Now the situation has completely changed, so we have already strong armed forces. What we face now is competition in intelligence and

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes. A U.S. ship was overflown by a not-very-young Russian aircraft, a Su-24. I would say it is 25 years old, maybe even more, but the electronic warfare assets on board this aircraft were quite powerful. That's why, if we are talking about what more Canada can do, it

Foreign Affairs committee  Ambassador, if I may.... Thank you very much for your question. I would like to emphasize that the Arctic is the new theatre of operations for Russia. For example, at the moment, there are more than 90,000 troops on the border with Ukraine. Also, the Russian fleet is in the Ar

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, sir. I'm not sure whether you have seen the parade on May 9 in Moscow. Russians demonstrated for first time in their history the robot platform, Uran-9. That's a combat platform with a robot that uses artificial intelligence. They are not only using artificial intelli

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

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.

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  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  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