Canada to invest 2 billion Canadian dollars in military assistance for Ukraine
發佈日期: 2025-08-25 20:13
TVB News
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country will invest 2 billion Canadian dollars in new military assistance for Ukraine to boost its army and provide urgently needed weapons.
He told Ukraine's president during a visit to Kyiv that he backs Ukraine's calls for robust security guarantees as part of any peace deal with Russia, saying Canada will not rule out sending troops under such a framework.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney inspected a drone facility in Kyiv on Sunday
before participating in a forum dedicated to defence cooperation.
The two leaders were shown the latest achievements of Ukrainian arms and equipment manufacturing.
In a joint briefing later, Carney said his country will invest 2 billion Canadian dollars in Ukraine's military: "We're investing today 2 billion dollars in new military assistance for Ukraine. Eight hundred million of this will help strengthen Ukraine's arsenal for the most urgently needed defence equipment -- drones, ammunition, armoured vehicles."
"And we had a discussion today about specifying and targeting that assistance where it will have the greatest impact. We are working through, with our allies in the Coalition of the Willing and with Ukraine, the modalities of those security guarantees on land, in the air and the sea. And I would not exclude the presence of troops."
Zelenskyy spoke with defence ministers of partner countries who arrived in Ukraine on Independence Day and who were part of the forum.
In a post Sunday on his Telegram account,Zelenskyy said more Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees had been returned home in a swap with Russia.
He said those being exchanged included members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service and civilians.
On NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance said Russia had made significant concessions towards a negotiated settlement in its war with Ukraine.
"I think the Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump", the Vice-President explained.
"For the first time in three and a half years of this conflict. They've actually been willing to be flexible on some of their core demands. They've talked about what would be necessary to end the war."
Of course, they haven't been completely there yet, or the war would be over. But we're engaging in this diplomatic process in good faith. We are trying to negotiate as much as we can with both the Russians and the Ukrainians to find a middle ground to stop the killing", Vance concluded.
