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Canadian PM floats the anticipation of ‘presence of troops’ from allied countries to support Ukraine against Russia.
Published On 24 Aug 2025
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has expressed enactment for Ukraine’s calls for information guarantees arsenic portion of immoderate bid woody with Russia, including the anticipation of deploying troops to the Eastern European country.
During a sojourn to Kyiv, wherever helium met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Sunday, Carney said a radical of Ukraine’s Western allies, known arsenic the Coalition of the Willing, is moving with the United States to bolster Ukrainian defences.
“In Canada’s judgment, it is not realistic that the lone information warrant could beryllium the spot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces … that needs to beryllium buttressed and reinforced,” Carney told reporters.
“We are moving done – with our allies successful Coalition of the Willing and with Ukraine – the modalities of those information guarantees connected land, successful the aerial and the sea, and I would not exclude the beingness of troops.”
Three and a fractional years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US President Donald Trump is starring efforts to extremity the war.
For its part, Kyiv is moving with its European allies to unafraid post-war guarantees to support Ukraine from the anticipation of renewed Russian attacks, which Trump has besides expressed openness towards.
On Sunday, Carney joined Zelenskyy for a ceremonial successful cardinal Kyiv to people Ukrainian Independence Day, which was besides attended by Trump’s peculiar envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
“We are each moving to guarantee that the extremity of this warfare would mean the warrant of bid for Ukraine, truthful that neither warfare nor the menace of warfare are near for our children to inherit,” Zelenskyy told a assemblage of dignitaries.
The Ukrainian president said helium wants aboriginal information guarantees arsenic portion of a imaginable bid woody to beryllium arsenic adjacent arsenic imaginable to NATO’s Article 5, which considers an onslaught connected 1 subordinate authorities arsenic an onslaught against all.
Zelenskyy and Carney signed an statement connected drone co-production. The Canadian premier curate said Ukraine would person much than $1 cardinal Canadian ($723 million) successful subject assistance from a antecedently announced bundle adjacent month.
Carney besides called for an extremity to the warring successful Ukraine during his visit.
“We request a cessation of hostilities. We request a ceasefire. We tin telephone it a ceasefire, a truce, an armistice. That’s indispensable to halt the killing,” Carney told reporters.
With the warfare already having claimed tens of thousands of lives, hopes for a ceasefire connected the ground, however, stay dim arsenic Kyiv and Moscow proceed to speech fire.
On Sunday, Russia accused Ukraine of carrying retired a drone onslaught connected the atomic powerfulness works successful Kursk adjacent the Ukrainian border, igniting a fire.
Local authorities, meanwhile, said a Russian drone onslaught killed a 47-year-old pistillate successful the eastbound portion of Dnipropetrovsk.
After a propulsion by Trump to broker a Ukraine-Russia summit, hopes for bid further dimmed erstwhile Russia connected Friday ruled retired immoderate contiguous gathering betwixt Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy.
But connected Sunday, Zelenskyy said the “format of talks betwixt leaders is the astir effectual mode forward”, renewing calls for a bilateral acme with Putin.
The Russian president met with Trump successful Anchorage, Alaska successful the US earlier this month, but the talks did not nutrient an contiguous breakthrough to extremity the war.
On Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused European leaders of undermining efforts to scope a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
“We privation bid successful Ukraine. US President Trump besides wants bid successful Ukraine. The absorption to the Anchorage meeting, the sojourn of these European representatives to Washington, and their consequent actions bespeak that they bash not privation peace,” Lavrov said, according to Russia’s TASS quality agency.
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Al Jazeera and quality agencies
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