{"id":87626,"date":"2017-02-02T01:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87626"},"modified":"2017-02-02T01:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:28:49","slug":"minister-hints-at-sending-more-help-for-ukraine-amid-new-of-violence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/02\/minister-hints-at-sending-more-help-for-ukraine-amid-new-of-violence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister hints at sending more help for Ukraine amid new of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87646\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Canadian_Minister_of_Defense_Harjit_Sajjan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87646\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Canadian_Minister_of_Defense_Harjit_Sajjan.jpg\" alt=\"Minister hints at sending more help for Ukraine amid new of violence (Photo by Ash Carter (https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/secdef\/24848920921\/) [CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Canadian_Minister_of_Defense_Harjit_Sajjan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Canadian_Minister_of_Defense_Harjit_Sajjan-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Canadian_Minister_of_Defense_Harjit_Sajjan-768x843.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister hints at sending more help for Ukraine amid new of violence (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ACanadian_Minister_of_Defense_Harjit_Sajjan.jpg\"> Ash Carter (https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/secdef\/24848920921\/) [CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>OTTAWA\u2014Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the federal government is concerned about a new outbreak of fighting in Ukraine and is looking at ways to improve Canada&#8217;s military support to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Government forces and Russian-backed rebels have traded heavy fire in eastern Ukraine over the last few days, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens more.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in violence is threatening to overturn a two-year-old ceasefire that has been repeatedly broken by both sides, but helped minimize bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Canada sent about 200 troops to Ukraine in the summer of 2015 to help train government forces, but the mission is set to expire at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian government has publicly asked Canada to extend the mission and while the Liberal government has been non-committal, Sajjan&#8217;s comments suggest an ongoing Canadian military presence.<\/p>\n<p>The minister says Canada is steadfast in its support for Ukraine, and that Canadian troops are making a difference in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the federal government is concerned about a new outbreak of fighting in Ukraine and is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[10041],"class_list":["post-87626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-harjit-sajjan","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}