Canadian military instructors are preparing a new stage of training for another unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
“Thanks to practical assistance from our Canadian partners, we’re continuing to develop and modernize the potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The military instructors from the Royal Canadian Regiment, along with their foreign and Ukrainian counterparts, are getting ready to launch a new stage of training for another combat unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I am confident of the high efficiency of this future work,” Poroshenko said at a meeting with U.S., Canadian and Ukrainian military personnel in the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in the village of Starychi, Yavorivsky district in Lviv region.
The president said that Ukraine appreciates Canada’s decision to continue the mandate of the UNIFIER military mission until 2019. “This is not only a symbol, not only a sign of support but also a real significant contribution to the training of Ukrainian military,” he said.
Poroshenko recalled that Canadian military instructors had already trained more than 5,000 Ukrainian servicemen.
As reported, Canada in March 2017 decided to extend the UNIFIER training mission of the Ukrainian military for two years – until March 2019. The mission involves about 200 military instructors from Canada.
Operation UNIFIER is the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) mission to support Ukrainian armed forces in Ukraine. The operation’s focus is to assist them with military training. This will help them improve and build their military capacity.
The CAF’s primary focus in Ukraine is on tactical soldier training. This is also known as small team training. It consists of individual weapons training; marksmanship; movement in areas of potential conflict; explosive threat recognition; communication in troop movement and command and control; survival in combat; ethics. Other training includes, among other things, explosive device disposal training and military police training.
