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The exiled opposition leader of Belarus will meet separately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly over the next two days in the hopes of persuading them to impose further sanctions on military and security services in her country. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya — who was widely considered to have won …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance needs to reinvigorate its military capacity in order to support Ukraine for the “long haul.” In an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Stoltenberg said the alliance had depleted much of its own supplies of weapons and ammunition and would need to work with industry …

A major international security conference started Friday in Halifax with repeated reassurances that the results of the U.S. midterm elections won’t mean a major shift in U.S. support for Ukraine. U.S. New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen told the opening panel at the Halifax International Security Forum that there’s clear …

Leaders of the Group of Seven industrial powers have pledged after a video conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that they “will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes.” The leaders said in a statement after Tuesday’s virtual meeting that they had reassured Zelenskyy they are “undeterred and steadfast …

The word “hawk” and the name Bob Rae are seldom found in the same sentence — except when it comes to Ukraine. Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations said recently that the federal government should give Ukraine every weapon it asks for. Ever since the onset of major hostilities last winter, Rae — the former …

It’s been called the nuclear blackmail card — both within western diplomatic and defence circles and in Russia itself. And it’s a reference to President Vladimir Putin’s poker-faced threat on Wednesday to resort to weapons of mass destruction if NATO steps over the line or Ukraine reclaims more of its own …

Ukraine has presented Canada with a new list of its military hardware needs as its army presses a counter-offensive against Russia in the east, CBC News has learned. The request was contained in a letter received by Defence Minister Anita Anand from her Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov, almost three weeks ago, said two …

Two Russian-controlled regions in Eastern Ukraine announced plans to hold referendums on joining Russia later this week and an ally of President Vladimir Putin said the votes would alter the geopolitical landscape in Moscow’s favour forever. The move, which seriously escalates Moscow’s standoff with the West, comes after Russia suffered …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met his British counterpart and other world leaders in London on Sunday, as talk of the economy and the war in Ukraine took their place alongside the sombre preparations for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. Trudeau spent about 40 minutes at 10 Downing Street early in the afternoon …

While Russia may be in retreat in northeastern Ukraine, the government in Kyiv has signalled once again that it’s looking beyond the current war for long-term security guarantees from western allies — including Canada — while it waits to join NATO. Those guarantees would include substantial weapons transfers, military training and binding …