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Operation UNIFIER | |
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Part of Russo-Ukrainian War | |
Location | International Peacekeeping and Security Centre, Starychi, Ukraine (until 2022) Poland and United Kingdom (from 2022) |
Planned by | Canada |
Commanded by | Thomas J. Lawson 2015 Stephen Harper 2015 Jason Kenney 2015 Justin Trudeau 2015– Harjit Sajjan 2015–2021 Jonathan Vance 2015–2021 Art McDonald 2021 Anita Anand 2021– Wayne Eyre 2021– Magdalena Andersson 2021–2022 Ulf Kristersson 2022– Petro Poroshenko Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
Objective |
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Date | April 14, 2015–present |
Executed by | Canadian Armed Forces Swedish Armed Forces Armed Forces of Ukraine |
Outcome | Ongoing |
Operation UNIFIER is the Canadian Armed Forces mission to bolster the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the provision of critical military training.[1] It was stood up in response to requests from the Government of Ukraine in light of fomentation by separatist sentiments in the Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimean regions of Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. Up until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the training mission took place in Ukraine through a Multinational Joint Commission which included Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since August 2022, the Canadian military has been working alongside the British Ministry of Defence in England to deliver training to Ukrainian recruits under Operation Interflex.[1]