Canada will send ammo to Ukraine

Canada has purchased more than 20,000 rounds of artillery ammunition for Ukraine, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday.

Anand, speaking at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Victoria, said the $98-million purchase will include the needed fuses and charge bags and comes from the $500-million Ukrainian military aid package announced in April’s federal budget. She said the rounds, which are the NATO artillery standard of 155 millimetre and will work with the artillery guns Canada shipped to Ukraine in April, are “exactly what Ukraine has asked allies to provide.”

Canada donated more than $130 million in military equipment prior to Tuesday’s announcement on ammunition, including protective gear, drone cameras, guns, nightvision goggles and meal packets.

Last month, Canada shipped four M777 howitzers to Ukraine.