OTTAWA — Canada is not ready to send military instructors back onto Ukrainian soil to help that country defend against Russia’s ongoing invasion, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Monday.
It was the clearest indication yet that Ottawa is not willing — at this point — to join France’s push to deploy Western personnel to train Ukrainian soldiers inside the war-torn country.
“The circumstances are not right to deploy, in my view, the Canadian trainers in Ukraine,” Blair said on Parliament Hill. “However, should the conditions change, we are open to that.”
Prudent given we don’t currently have a real army.
