Russia asked Canada to clarify media reports that alleged that the country’s armed forces were training fighters from “neo-Nazi formations” who then went to Donbass and killed people, but there was no answer. Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov “RIA News”.
According to him, for several months now, Canadian publications have been publishing information that members of the Right Sector (the organization was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) and Azov (the organization was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) were secretly trained in the country. . Moreover, this happens within the framework of the UNIFIER (“Unifier”) program. — RBC), Stepanov pointed out.
“Canadian journalists wondered why, in fact, people who wear swastikas suddenly say on their social networks that they were trained by Canadians as part of Operation UNIFIER,” he said. “They are trying to understand how this could happen.”
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Stepanov added that the Canadian Ministry of Defense is reluctant to respond to journalistic publications, saying that they are conducting an internal investigation of the published data. According to him, the department “tabooed” this issue and did not explain how the proceedings are progressing and what are its results. “I expressed concern,” the Russian ambassador said.