Ukrainian hero feted in the streets a historical horror

Ukraine’s embrace of a nationalist hero with Nazi connections doesn't show the type of Canadian values our military trainers were sent to defend.
A monument to Stepan Bandera is seen in Ternopil, Ukraine.
For the approximately 200 Canadian military trainers currently deployed to Ukraine, it is likely that on the first of January they would have witnessed a torch-lit procession. Throughout Kyiv and numerous other towns in Western Ukraine, thousands of civilians took to the streets—not to usher in th...

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