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…
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