Ukraine can fire our weapons during attack inside Russia, says Canada
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“Ukrainians know best how to defend their homeland,” says Canadian defense department.

“Ukrainians know best how to defend their homeland,” says Canadian defense department.

Ukraine can use Canadian tanks and missiles in its ongoing special military operation on Russia soil, Ottawa said.

Canada places no geographic restrictions on the use of military equipment it has donated and continues to donate to Ukraine, Andrée-Anne Poulin, Canadian defense department spokesperson, told POLITICO in an email on Friday.

“Ukrainians know best how to defend their homeland, and we’re committed to supporting their capacity,” Poulin added. “Canada steadfastly supports Ukraine’s right to defend itself against Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable war — and that is why we have committed over $4 billion in military assistance to Ukraine.”

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    Because Putin basically gave his blessing for this by not reacting at all except for some crotchety old man asking to please get of the lawn speech.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    81·
    3 months ago

    No offense to our northern friends, but I was really hoping this headline would end with “says United States”. Oh well.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    224·
    3 months ago

    Why is every country saying “our” weapons. Do they expect Ukraine to return them after the war??

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      29·
      3 months ago

      The weaponry was granted to Ukraine under certain conditions. This means Ukraine has to keep track of which weapons are used where. These statements are clarifications to give Ukraine more flexibility in their combat operations

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      There were rules, like EULA, of how they can use these weapons placed by each exporter, for political reasons. Canada’s official specify that it’s about their batch of supplies. This doesn’t affect weapons from Sweden or France, only their. - that’s important to say, but it’s not the point. The point is they show support by doing it now in public to the current offensive that initially shocked most, but now is openly protested only by Russia. We may as well not know the whole story and this was allowed before, but now it’s a support of drastic counter-measures Ukraine does that were previously unimaginable.

    • Harold_Penisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      If I say you can “have” “my” possessions, they were mine, but become yours. In this case, they apparently said “use” instead of “have”, but a lot of weapons and munitions are destroyed upon use, and those that aren’t are still being used in a war where it is very likely that they could be destroyed/lost/stolen anyway.

      Tl;dr, no, they do not expect these weapons to be returned. They were “theirs”, and now they are Ukraine’s.