Canada to provide Ukraine with additional $50mn in lethal and non-lethal military aid

Weaponry labelled “lethal aid,” would include machine guns, pistols, carbines, sniper rifles, 1.5 million rounds of ammunition, and other small arms from Canada

Canada on Wednesday announced that it will provide Ukraine with an additional $50m in lethal and non-lethal military aid, Qazet.az reports.

 This would include the Canadian-made cameras used in military drones and other specialised equipment. Ottawa's defence minister Anita Anand took to her official Twitter handle to announce that Canadian Prime minister Justin Trudeau will make another shipment of highly-specialised military equipment to Ukraine. 'We stand with Ukrainians fighting to defend their country,' she wrote.

As Russia continued to bomb the civilian areas in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also earlier dialled Trudeau and requested to bolster defence cooperation between Kyiv and Ottawa.