Published:
16 ago 2024 08:22 GMT
The spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense said that “Ukrainians know better than anyone how to defend their homeland.”
The Canadian Ministry of Defence believes that Ukraine may use Canadian weapons against Russian territory, reported local television channel CBC on Thursday.
“The Ukrainians They know better than anyone how to defend their homeland.and we are committed to supporting their capability,” Andree-Anne Poulin, a Department of Defense spokeswoman, said in a statement to the media. “Canada does not impose geographical restrictions the use of military equipment that we donated to Ukraine,” he added.
The US has delivered eight Leopard 2A4 tanks, several dozen armoured support vehicles and hundreds of armoured patrol vehicles, as well as some M-777 howitzers, to kyiv. Images captured by CNN along the Ukrainian border on Thursday showed a Canadian-made Roshel Senator patrol vehicle crossing into Russia.
In response to such reports, Poulin said Ottawa’s donations always meet the requirements of the Arms Trade Treatythe international agreement aimed at reducing illegal arms transfers and human rights abuses.
According to CBC, it is unclear whether Kiev forces used Canadian equipment in their attack on Russia’s Kursk province. Russian special forces commander Akhmat Apty Alaudinov said that almost 100,000 people were involved in last week’s attempted raid. 12,000 Ukrainian military personnelRussian troops managed to stop their advance and eliminated a large number of Ukrainian troops and military equipment in the area.
Following the incident, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry for crimes of the kyiv regime, Rodion Miroshnik, denounced that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would never have occurred. if it were not for the support of the WestMeanwhile, Vladimir Zelensky’s adviser, Mikhail Podoliak, confirmed on Wednesday that his country discussed the attack on Kursk with its Western partners, despite many of them officially saying otherwise.
