Canada to extend military training missions in Ukraine, Iraq


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will keep a 200-strong military training mission in Ukraine for another three years to help domestic security forces handle continuing tensions with Russia, Ottawa said on Monday.

The Canadian troops, who first went to Ukraine in September 2015, had been due out at the end of March but will now stay until March 2022. News of the extension was first reported by Reuters on Sunday.

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