Lenna Koszarny 8 December at 19:40 Since I have been outed by one of the soldiers who received the Canadian aid and tagged in this photo and receiving lots of messages, I will comment on this briefly. I am very proud to serve as one of the Canadian volunteers under the stewardship of our incredible Ambassador from Canada to Ukraine, Ambassador Waschuk, the Canadian government and working in tandem with Bogdan Kovalev, a hard-working dedicated volunteer with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense as appointed by the President of Ukraine. Bohdan is a member of the outstanding Ukrainian volunteer group led by Yuri Buriukov and David Braun and just as dedicated as the Canadian volunteers are to ensuring the aid from the Canadian transport plane that arrived last week gets to the soldiers in the field. What has impressed me the most is how quickly this aid was deployed by the Canadian government and then by the Ukrainian Defence Ministry and volunteers. A brief timeline - Canadian Defence Minister Rob Nicholson announced the aid on Wed Nov 26; the transport plane left on the 27th for Ukraine and arrived on the 28th; in the wee hours of the 29th over 3,000 outfits were unloaded off the transport plane into a central army warehouse; a massive inventory count was undertaken and overseen by volunteers over the next fews day to ensure every item that arrived was counted (thank you Roman Sawycky for counting thousands of boots!); the distribution strategy was recommended, reviewed and signed off within the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence; thousands of outfits were sent to various bases...and within 24 hours after this, the boots, jackets, pants and gloves are already being worn by the soldiers both in the ATO and in the forward bases prior to deployment to the front. A huge undertaking on the part of the Canadian and Ukrainian governments that was extremely well done and executed over the course of 8 days from when the plane left Canada. Well done Canada and Ukraine! I am very proud of Canada, proud to be Canadian and proud of our Canadian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. PS. Thank you dear soldier for your kind words about Canadians and Canada...I especially liked the compliment that although I speak Ukrainian with an accent, I speak literary Ukrainian! Much appreciated. PSS. The very nice post by this soldier also mentioned that I was the Canadian Prime Ministers representative...not true, I am just a Canadian volunteer not the Prime Ministers representative! I hope you are not too disappointed about this!
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:04:22 +0000
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