Soldiers from Canada and other NATO countries will take part in joint exercises with the Ukrainian army this month that are likely to further fuel suspicions between Moscow and the West.

A total of 1,300 soldiers will take part in the 10-day drills, which begin on Sept. 16 at the Yavoriv training centre, near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The Pentagon said the United States will contribute 200 soldiers to the exercise, which is code-named Rapid Trident. It wasn’t clear Wednesday how many Canadian troops would take part.
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Russia, for its part, accuses NATO of deliberately stirring up tensions in Ukraine. Mikhail Popov, the deputy secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, said Tuesday that Moscow would soon draw up a new military doctrine, in response to “the desire of U.S. and NATO leaders to continue their policy of aggravating tensions with Russia.”

General Yury Yakubov, a senior official in Russia’s Defence Ministry, said Wednesday that he hoped to see the new military doctrine – which will update a 2010 document – explicitly name the United States and NATO as Russia’s enemies.

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Nobody seems to understand that America is behind this war: it started it , supports it by promising money. Meanwhile innocent people die there everyday, thousands flee to Russia. And how the Ukrainian government could do this to its own country just to please America?!

Huh??? Last I saw it was Russian backed fighters trying to get Ukrainian territory back into Russian control.

N.A.T.O. has promised $15M to assist the Ukraine. The innocents are being killed by Russian backed troops.

Flee to Russia??????

You are clearly under influence of American propaganda. Try to think for yourself.

You are clearly mistaken.

Well, we can't let Russia get that syrian oil, either, now can we? Wonder when the Mexicans are going to help.