Canada has approved the delivery of weapons to Ukraine
Canada has added Ukraine to the list of countries allowed to export canadian automatic weapons. The announcement is published in the Canada Gazette.
The list includes 39 countries. Basically, it is the member States of NATO, also the list includes Australia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Finland, South Korea and several other States.
On the possibility of supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine September 22, informed the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau. Canadian Prime Minister indicated that Canada will continue to help Ukraine “protect its sovereignty”. He also said that till March 2019 has been extended mission 200 canadian military trainers in Ukraine who are engaged in the training of officers and soldiers of the APU in the Yavoriv training ground in Lviv region.
In August, U.S. Secretary of defense James Mattis said that Washington is considering supplying lethal weapons to Kiev.