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 by AFP Staff Writers Adazi, Latvia (AFP) Feb 9, 2022
Canada is considering sending reinforcements to eastern Europe because of the security situation, Defence Minister Anita Anand said during a visit to Latvia on Thursday. "We are examining options to reinforce in Eastern Europe as a whole," Anand said. The minister visited the Adazi base where Canada head up a NATO battle group. Canada has around 500 soldiers in Latvia. Anand said it was Canada's "largest foreign military deployment". The US on Wednesday announced it was sending a total of 3,000 soldiers to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe in response to Russia's troop build-up around Ukraine. "I am very concerned about Russian aggression towards Ukraine," Anand said, adding: "We take very seriously the protection of NATO's eastern front". Canada supports and trains Ukraine's military through operation UNIFIER, launched in 2015. On a visit Sunday to Kyiv, Anand said Canada would be moving its Ukraine-based military units to the west of the country and would withdraw all non-essential embassy staff. Latvian Defence Minister Artis Pabriks said his country was "preparing its military instructors to join Operation UNIFIER". NATO decided to deploy battle groups on a rotational basis to eastern members Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Blinken heads to Asia as Ukraine crisis boils Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed for the Asia-Pacific on Tuesday aiming to shore up regional partnerships in the face of an expansive China, even as the crisis on Ukraine's border simmers. Blinken will spend three days in Melbourne for a meeting with foreign ministers of the Quad, the informal US-Japan-India-Australia grouping that Washington hopes will become a bulwark against Beijing's push for regional dominance. The visit will include meetings with senior Australian officials, inc ... read more
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