Excerpts from a feature in Canada’s Globe and Mail. Reznikov was until recently minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories: to indicate what he was recently installed as defense minister to achieve. Like the nation’s top military commander and the head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, his predecessor was recently purged to make way for a more aggressive military/national security team.
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Canada, the United States and Britain should jointly and swiftly provide military support to Ukraine in its standoff with Russia, Ukraine’s defence minister said…warning that steps to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading were necessary now because “it will be too late after.”
Oleksii Reznikov said he detected a split within the NATO military alliance over how far to go in supporting Ukraine. Canada, the U.S., and Britain were more willing to challenge Mr. Putin’s aggressive behaviour….
Mr. Reznikov, who was appointed defence minister last month by President Volodymyr Zelensky, called on “the Anglo-Saxon allies” to act outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization….
Ukraine, he said, needed a “quick response” from its allies that would help it address a lack of anti-aircraft missiles, modern warplanes and naval craft….But just as important, he said, would be Canadian, U.S. and British soldiers visibly deployed to positions near the frontline.
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Defense Minister calls on Britain, Canada and the U.S. to place soldiers on borders of Ukraine
Olexiy Reznikov believes that foreign soldiers should be stationed in territories that may be on the front lines during a possible invasion of the Russian Federation
Defense Minister Olexiy Reznikov called on the UK, Canada and the United States to deploy their troops in the south and east of Ukraine…..
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