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There are Canadians in a position to know who believe there is an operation against Freeland; that it started in Trudeaus office; and that it is picking up momentum in the foreign policy establishment.These sources believe Freeland got wind of the operation, and decided her best defence was a counterattack on Russia. If her defence fails, she goes. If she survives, her Ukrainian story will be a disqualification for higher office. Either way, Trudeau can calculate he wins.John Helmer (March, 2017) [1]

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The month of March proved to be a busy and hectic one for Canadas newly Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Dogged by independent media reports about her maternal grandfather being a Nazi collaborator during World War II (which proved to be correct), Freeland address the issue during a March 6 press conference in Ottawa. She depicted the (true) revelations as part of a Russian attempt to destabilize the political system in Canada.The conference itself was intended as an announcement of the extension until the end of 2019 of Canadas military training mission in support of Ukraine.

OnMarch 31, Minister Freeland attended her first NATO foreign Ministerial meeting in Brussels, Belgium, and according to her twitter feed,announced, At NATO, reiterated that Russias illegal annexation of Crimea & violence in Donbass will not be tolerated. CAD stands by Ukraine.

Meanwhile, on March 29th, a Polish consulate in Western-Ukraine came under attack by a suspected anti-tank missile causing structural damage. This was the latest of a string of attacks targeting Polish monuments in the region, indicative of a rise in extremism among Ukraine ultra-nationalists against Polish heroes and icons from the Second World War. As the New Cold War website points out, this incident was presented by Western media as a Russia did it story, ifit got any press coverage at all!

There is virtually no sustained media criticism or examination of Canadian policy in Ukraine. Hints of discord between Minister Freeland and Canadas Foreign Affairs establishment go unexplored.

With these developments in the background, the Global Research News Hour devotes an hour examining Ukraine, now more than three years after the overthrow of the Yanukovych government, and how Canadian foreign policy is engaging the volatile country.

Our guests include John Helmer and Roger Annis.

John Helmer has served as aforeign correspondent in Russia since 1989, and is the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. Helmer has also been a professor of political science, of sociology, and of journalism, and an advisor to government heads in Greece, the United States, and Asia. Helmer is among the most widely read Russian specialists in the business world for his news-breaking stories on Russian base and precious metals, diamonds, mining, shipping, insurance, food trade, and business policy. An archive of his articles can be found at his blog Dances With Bears.

Roger Annis is a socialist and trade union activist. Anniswrites regularly on topics of social justice and peace. He has written extensively about Canadian involvement in Haiti and, more recently, in Ukraine. He is a founding editor of the website The New Cold War: Ukraine and beyond, which was launched in October 2014.

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Canada and the Ukraine Powder Keg - Center for Research on Globalization

The US news and entertainment site Buzzfeed published a story last month claiming that during Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysmans March visit to Ankara, he agreed that Ukraine would help Turkey with refugees from Syria. Citing a report in the Ukrinform state news agency, Buzzfeed contributor Blake Adams wrote that Ukraine was to establish refugee centers in the Odesa, Kherson and Mykolayiv regions. He attributes this claim to Middle East Research Institute director Ihor Semyvolos. Adams concluded that Turkey is looking to ease its Syrian refugee burden and now Europe would be flooded with new waves of illegal refugees but this time they would be coming from Ukraine.

Website screenshot BuzzFeed

Website screenshot BuzzFeed

Buzzfeed links to a Facebook post by a Yuriy Koval, who in turn links to a site called Vse Novosti and someone called Mykola Dobryniuk, both claiming that Ukraine agreed to take in Syrian refugees from Turkey. Neither Koval nor Dobryniuk have any other posts on the Internet.

Website screenshot vsenovosti.info

The Buzzfeed story, written in suspiciously bad English should have immediately raised red flags. But it did not, until we at StopFake fact checked it.

Ukrinform never ran a story claiming Ukraine would build refugee centers to accommodate Syrian refugees from Turkey. The agency covered Groysmans visit to Turkey in a detailed analysis of Ukraine-Turkey cooperation without any mention of any refugee centers. Both Koval and Dobryniuk, the alleged bloggers Buzzfeed cited imbedded a doctored screenshot of the Ukrinform story.

Ihor Semyvolos, the director of the Middle East Research Institute commented on Ukraine Turkey relations in the real Ukrinform story, he did not say anything about refugees or refugee centers. He pointed out the fake in a Facebook post.

After StopFake debunked this fake story, Buzzfeed pulled it from its site.If only all of our work was this effective.

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Fake: Ukraine to Open Camps for Syrian Refugees - StopFake.org

Dave Connell: All we have to do is try and win the two games. Well pick the heads up and try get back into the reckoning as quickly as we can. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

The Republic of Ireland Womens Under-19 will be looking to bounce back from Tuesdays Elite Round defeat to Scotland when they face Ukraine in Limerick on Thursday evening.

Dave Connells side were defeated by a 95th minute penalty in their opening group game against Scotland, with the Ireland head coach lamenting the performance of his side.

I thought we were pretty poor in the first half not up to our usual standards. We were a bit better in the second half, but overall, I thought we were second best. Id have been happy with a point but unfortunately its a bitter pill to take in the end. We can play a lot better than that.

Ireland know a win is required against Ukraine to keep their qualification hopes alive, with suspension and injuries a concern for Connell in the build up to the tie.

Leanne [Kiernan] picked up a yellow so that puts her out of the game now. We took a chance bringing her on she hasnt been training.

Jess [Nolan] took a knock, Saoirse [Noonan] took a knock weve a few casualties and well have to review that, he said.

Another bumper crowd is expected in Markets Field, with Connell adding that three points is the aim for the home side.

All we have to do is try and win the two games. Well pick the heads up and try get back into the reckoning as quickly as we can.

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Ireland U-19 women's side face must-win tie against Ukraine - Irish Times

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US soldiers, Ukrainian forces train to hold ground - News - Stripes - Stars and Stripes

The Trump administration is giving serious thought to providing Ukraine with lethal defensive aid, Arizona senator John McCain told THE WEEKLY STANDARD, a move that is likely to rile the Kremlin if realized.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is slated to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin next week, expressed support for such aid during his January confirmation hearing. McCain said that Tillerson signaled the potential for providing lethal defensive aid to Ukraine in a meeting Tuesday.

"He certainly said that we need to provide more assistance tothey're seriously considering more assistance to the Ukrainians," McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told TWS. "I reminded him that it was in the defense authorization bill, he said, 'yes, we are considering that option."

Other members of Trump's team have reportedly been less supportive of Ukraine and made moves to tone down language in the GOP platform on providing weaponry last summer. (That account has been disputed.) Republican lawmakers have said they were unsure where Trump would land on lethal defensive aid.

The president has pledged to improve relations with the Kremlinand the Ukrainians have for years been fighting Russian-backed separatists on the country's eastern border. The 2017 defense policy bill authorizes Trump to provide security assistance to Ukraine.

McCain has both discouraged the president from attempting a "reset" with Putin and pushed for the administration to supply Ukraine with lethal defensive aid. He also called for the provision of such aid under President Obama, whose administration preferred nonlethal assistance.

"Each of our last three presidents has had great expectations of building a partnership with the Russian government. Each attempt has failed," he said in January.

Tillerson said in March that sanctions against Russia related to its destabilizing actions in Ukraine will remain as long as those activities continue. Other members of the Trump administration, most prominently U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, have also been talking tough on Russia.

"I don't think that we can trust [Russia]," Haley said during her confirmation hearing in January. "I certainly think [sanctions] should be preserved, and I don't think they should be lifted unless we have seen as a strong change from the Russian government."

The FBI has been investigating potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia since July.

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McCain: Trump Administration 'Seriously Considering' Lethal Defensive Aid to Ukraine - The Weekly Standard