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While the war in the Middle East has affected Canadians across the country who have ties to the region, two tragedies that came to light this week are a reminder that another conflict is continuing to take a devastating toll.

The Globe’s senior international correspondent, Mark MacKinnon, reports that Brad Stratford, a Canadian military veteran from North Vancouver, has been killed by Russian fire.

On Friday, sources confirmed to Mark that Stratford died several days ago in heavy fighting around Avdiivka, an industrial city in the southeastern Donetsk region.

On Wednesday, the brother of an Edmonton paramedic spoke with reporter Alanna Smith and confirmed that Josh Mayers had been killed earlier this month while digging a trench near Russian-occupied Bakhmut.

Lathlin-Bercier, a graduate of the Canadian Armed Forces’ Bold Eagle program for Indigenous youth, had served in Ukraine’s International Legion since early in the war.

Mark notes the Ukrainian military does not publish information about the soldiers and equipment it has lost, so it’s impossible to say whether the spike in Canadians killed in action is coincidental or reflective of a wider pattern of rising casualties.

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