CTV News in Ukraine: War enters new year with $3B additional support from Canada

Let’s go back now to Ukraine as Russia’s war on the country enters its third year ctv’s Heather Wright joins us now live from keev uh Heather thank you for joining us and what more do we hear about Trudeau and other allies in terms of additional funding for Ukraine they

Were there in a surprise visit yesterday Yes Prime Minister Justin Chau joined a number of other leaders along with Ukrainian President Vladimir zalinski they had a number of ceremonies to mark two years since this fullscale Invasion began and among the Promises pledged by Canada to Ukraine is an

Additional $ 3.02 billion in funding this will include about $320 million in military aid and a number of other measures to help bolster this economy as it enters its third year of War Canada has also committed to being there to supporting Ukraine for the next 10 years

And when we talked to prime minister Justin Trudeau before he left before he got back on that train to return to Poland he said that the hope within that 10 years is that Ukraine joins NATO um we also heard from the president of the European commission who was talking

About Expediting uh Ukraine’s process to join the European Union so a number of allies were here and are here in Ukraine marking uh the second aniversary of this fullscale Invasion promising to be there for Ukraine in the longterm as it’s becoming increasingly more clear that this war is not going to end anytime

Soon and it could drag on for many more years now we’re hearing the resolve of the politicians but what about people on the ground the average ukrainians well that is a big fear that they have is a how much longer is this war going to drag on and B how much

Longer are they going to be able to count on the support from the West we heard from the Ukrainian minister of defense today saying roughly 50% of Aid and Military supplies that’s promised to Ukraine does not arrive on time and that was really one of the undertones

Yesterday as we were hearing from these world leaders and asking them questions the commitments are great on paper but they need to get here um and Canada you know is is not alone in struggling with some of those delivery delays with the drones that have been pledged with the

Nasim that Canada has purchased from the United States for Ukraine these are surfac to um air missile defense systems that are very critical to helping Ukraine on the front lines they purchased them from the United States but still have no delivery date so that is you know sort of the rhetoric that

We’re hearing a lot today as uh this war enters its third year is that the commitments are of course very appreciative um of the Ukrainian people of the government but they actually need to get here to make any difference on the front line and keep in mind that

Russia has certainly pivoted its economy to become a wartime economy they have factories working 24/7 pumping out Munitions and the West simply can’t keep up with that productivity and in order for Ukraine to win this war they are going to need to get supplies much quicker to the front lines in order to

Saave off the Russian Advance cdvs Heather right thank you for that update

CTV News’ Heather Wright has the latest on the road ahead for Canada’s support of Ukraine after both countries sign a $3B defense deal.

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