Calgary, Alberta, September 10, 2026
Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have launched a 100-year partnership centred on joint drone production, air defence and defence-industrial cooperation. Canada plans capacity for millions of drones within two years, with one-third destined for Ukraine, while adding C$350m for interceptors and more than C$600m in energy and reconstruction finance.
Canada and Ukraine to scale up drone production, build up Canada’s defence industries, and achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine – Canadian Government
Calgary, Alberta, September 10, 2026
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion over four years ago, Ukraine is, once again, at the frontline of the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. Ukrainians have defended their territory, identity, and way of life – and Canada has been consistent and relentless in our support. At this crucial moment in the war, where Ukraine continues to innovate and strengthen, Canada is ready to do more.
To this end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, welcomed the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to Canada this week to forge a new chapter in the Canada-Ukraine partnership. The leaders announced a series of new initiatives to bolster Canada’s sovereign drone capabilities, expand co-production with Ukraine, and establish long-term cooperation on defence and security.
First, to accelerate Canada’s own production capabilities, Prime Minister Carney today announced the creation of the Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace (DDIM) Supply Arrangement. This national digital drone marketplace will connect operators and end-users to this Canadian defence ecosystem – accelerating the discovery, acquisition, and fielding of uncrewed and counter-uncrewed capabilities. This system, modelled after Ukraine’s world-leading Brave1, will ensure the reliable, rapid, and continuous supply of drones for the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Coast Guard. Canada’s Allies and partners will have privileged access to nearly 400 trusted Canadian suppliers.
Canada has awarded initial contracts worth up to $50 million that will increase the number of drones currently deployed by the Canadian Armed Forces tenfold. This is merely the first step toward our goal of ensuring Canadian industry has the capacity – the factories, supply chains, and key components – to produce millions of drones over the next two years. Additionally, these procurements put Canada’s Build-Partner-Buy approach into action – drawing on Canadian capabilities, partnering with trusted Allies and partners, and ensuring that defence investments deliver benefits for Canadians. The contracts will require training, maintenance, repair, configuration, and sustainment to take place in Canada, supporting Canadian jobs and expertise and strengthening our ability to maintain critical defence capabilities across Canada. For these initial contracts, Canada will work with the following suppliers to procure intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance drones as well as uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV):
Beonyx (Québec)
- Canadian designed, owned, and manufactured system with engineering, support, assembly, and manufacturing conducted in Canada, primarily in Québec, representing a fully Canadian UGV solution.
AVSS (New Brunswick and Ontario)
- Manufacturing and assembly take place in Ontario. The majority of major components, software, electronics, sensors, and support systems are sourced from Canada.
Volatus Aerospace (Québec with partners in the United Kingdom)
- This Montréal-based manufactured platform features Canadian support and sustainment. Volatus provides Canadian contract management, logistics, customer support, training, and lifecycle sustainment services.
Twenty20 Insight Inc. (Ontario)
- UK-designed and manufactured platform with Canadian service delivery. Twenty20 Insight provides Canadian contract management, systems engineering, training, documentation, customer support, configuration management, and sustainment activities.
Draganfly (Saskatchewan)
- Established Canadian engineering, manufacturing, integration, training, and sustainment capabilities, with production and ongoing product development in Canada. The proposed platform is based on proven Australian technology, with Canadian production under licence.
Objexis AI (Ontario)
- Canadian-designed and built platform with Canadian-owned IP, software, avionics, mission systems, and integration conducted primarily in Canada, supporting domestic defence innovation and advanced manufacturing.
Second, the Prime Minister and President underlined the new partnership between General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada and the Ukrainian company Green Tech Harvest, which will develop and produce critical drones and drone-related technologies. This partnership – building on the partnership between Airlogix LLC and Sentinel Research & Development announced in May – will expand Canadian and Ukrainian collaboration on every aspect of drone production, from the critical metals and minerals to engineering. It will leverage Canadian manufacturing to respond to Ukraine’s critical defence needs, while supporting hundreds of good jobs in Canada, and will unlock new opportunities in the skilled trades, engineering, and computer science sectors. With other partnerships in negotiations, Canada is scaling up our defence industries to defend Canada and be a reliable partner.
Third, Canada and Ukraine are forging a long term, government to government, partnership to jointly produce uncrewed systems, counter-drone technologies, and priority munitions – combining Ukrainian battlefield experience with Canadian manufacturing, software, and AI.
Building on Canada’s support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Prime Minister Carney today announced a series of additional investments to bolster Ukraine’s defence and long-term security:
- Approximately $350 million to deliver critical air defence interceptors through the United States’ Joint Ukraine Multinational Program – Services, Training and Articles Rapid Timeline (JUMPSTART). This mechanism leverages financial donations from Allies to aid Ukraine in addressing its evolving defence needs, including procuring critical equipment.
- Nearly $23 million in funding to bolster the capabilities of Ukraine’s security architecture– helping detect, prevent, and respond to hybrid threats to civilian safety. This includes both support for Ukraine’s police, national guard, military, and frontline communities affected by Russia’s aggression, as well as funding to combat threats and disinformation.
As Ukraine heads into another winter, continued Russian strikes on its energy infrastructure threaten the essential services Ukrainians rely on. To help Ukraine repair and strengthen its energy infrastructure, Canada is:
- Providing nearly $435 million in new loan guarantees to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developmentto support energy security, including winter gas purchases and secondary energy generators to produce electricity during shortages.
- Allocating $200 million in concessional loans through Export Development Canada to support Ukraine’s reconstruction. It will help Ukraine repair critical infrastructure by enabling Canadian companies to support critical projects.
- Providing an additional $10 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, for a total of $100 million, to support Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, including the procurement and delivery of critical energy equipment to improve the resilience of Ukrainians to energy shocks.
- Providing $2 million to the International Energy Agency (IEA) Joint Work Programme to support Ukraine’s Energy Resource Development.This funding will strengthen Ukraine’s energy resilience, provide regulatory support, and advance clean energy projects.
Russia’s war has taken an enormous toll on the Ukrainians, who have fought to defend their country. To support the implementation of Ukraine’s National Veteran Strategy, Canada is leading the design of a multi-donor pooled funding initiative supporting veterans and their families. Canada will provide up to $40.1 million to help Ukrainian veterans recover, rehabilitate, and transition to civilian life.
As Russia’s war continues, thousands of Ukrainian children remain separated from their families and communities after being unlawfully deported or forcibly transferred by Russia. As co-chair with Ukraine of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, Canada is committed to facilitating their immediate and unconditional return and supporting their reintegration and rehabilitation once they are home. To advance these efforts, Canada is announcing:
- Up to $6 million to support Ukraine’s efforts to return and reintegrate Ukrainian children unlawfully deported and forcibly transferred by Russia,including support for tracing and verification, rehabilitation, reintegration, and community-based services.
- New sanctions on eight individualswho have engaged in violation of Ukrainian children’s rights, including their unlawful deportation and forcible transfer, and their exposure to indoctrination and militarisation.
The leaders additionally announced a Canada-Ukraine critical minerals initiative to support joint research, bolster Ukraine’s economy and reconstruction by identifying new mineral opportunities, and help develop critical mineral production in Ukraine.
Finally, the leaders signed two declarations and issued a joint statement. The first declaration, the Canada-Ukraine Declaration for a 100-Year Partnership, along with the joint statement, establishes a new roadmap which will bolster the comprehensive strategic partnership between Canada and Ukraine. The new partnership will focus on defence innovation and cooperation, economic growth, trade and reconstruction, and people-to-people ties – underpinned by unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and long-term Euro-Atlantic integration. The partnership will extend to economic collaboration and areas where Canadian know-how can best be utilised. The second declaration, the Joint Declaration on Enhancement of the Defence and Security Cooperation between Ukraine and Canada, establishes a long-term defence partnership centred on defence industrial cooperation in cutting-edge technologies, co-development and co-production of defence equipment, and information sharing.
With the investments announced today, Canada’s total commitments of multifaceted assistance for Ukraine have now reached over $26 billion since 2022. Canada has consistently been among the largest contributors to Ukraine’s defence, recovery, and reconstruction. Canada continues to work toward securing a just and lasting peace that reunites children with their families, fortifies Ukraine’s forces, builds prosperity for the Ukrainian people, and deters Russia from ever again threatening the peace and security of Ukraine or Europe.
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Canada is, has, and always will be a steadfast ally in Ukraine’s relentless pursuit of freedom. Today, Canada and Ukraine forged a new partnership which will equip the Canadian Armed Forces with world-leading drone capabilities, create jobs across Canada, and support Ukraine as they fight to achieve a just and lasting peace. Ukraine’s fight is our fight, their struggle is our cause, and their independence will be our victory.”
Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
Quick facts
This is President Zelenskyy’s fifth visit to Canada – and his third meeting with Prime Minister Carney on Canadian soil.
Since launching the Defence Drone Initiativein July, the government has now gone from project launch to first contract in 50 days.
Canada has stood with Ukraine from the beginning. Following Russia’s illegal attempted annexation of Crimea in 2014, Canada launched Operation UNIFIER at the request of the Ukrainian government, and our military support has continued to expand since then. In February, we extended Operation UNIFIER by an additional three years, to 2029, ensuring the Canadian Armed Forces can continue providing military training and capacity-building support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Today’s JUMPSTART donation builds upon Canada’s prior donation of a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), as well as over $1.2 billion in Canadian investments in priority air defence initiatives, including:
- $1.18 billion to NATO’s Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL).
- $76 million to Germany’s Enduring Action on Air Defence (EAAD).
- $33 million to the United Kingdom’s Air Defence Consortium.
As the nature of war rapidly evolves – driven by the proliferation of drones, autonomous systems, and weapons in orbit – and the possibility of conflict comes closer to our borders, Canada’s drone capability is more crucial than ever before. As partners, Canada benefits from Ukraine’s unique operational expertise in this area.
- For Canada, uncrewed systems are a key sovereign capability enabling persistent surveillance, force protection, precision effects, contested logistics, and maritime and Arctic awareness. The DDIM will help rapidly field, sustain, and modernise these systems at scale.
- Ukraine has employed drones at scale for reconnaissance, precision strikes, logistics, mine-laying, electronic warfare, and counter-drone operations, demonstrating how relatively low-cost uncrewed systems can deliver disproportionate effects and reshape modern warfare.
- Collaboration between Canadian and Ukrainian companies benefits both countries by supporting the development and production of critical technologies, strengthening industrial resilience, and fostering opportunities for innovation and cooperation.
Since 2022, Canada has committed over $26 billion in economic, military, humanitarian, development, security, stabilisation, and immigration assistance to support Ukraine and its people.
- Canada’s support has included direct financial assistance, military assistance, recovery and reconstruction support, humanitarian assistance, peace and stabilisation programming, and measures to help repair and strengthen Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
As co-chair of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children since 2024, Canada has been working with Ukraine, Norway, European partners, and the United States to secure the immediate and unconditional return of Ukrainian children – in line with international humanitarian law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Since 2014, Canada has imposed extensive economic measures on Russia, including sanctions against more than 3,500 individuals and entities, under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) in response to Russia’s violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty. This includes imposing sanctions against those involved in violations of Ukrainian children’s rights.
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Source – Prime Minister’s Office
Speech by PM Mark Carney: Canada and Ukraine to scale up drone production, build up Canada’s defence industries, and achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine
Calgary, Alberta, September 10, 2026
Good morning.
When Russia began its illegal, barbaric full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin made a series of rash predictions.
Victory in 72 hours.
Then four days to take Kyiv.
Soon, it was two weeks. Then, one month. Six months. Putin thought that the Ukrainian state would crumble. That the will of the Ukrainian people could be broken.
Mr. President: It has been four years, and 198 days of courageous resistance.
Ukraine will never submit.
Mr. President, a year ago, I had the honour of standing next to you in Kyiv’s Sophia Square – the centre of Ukraine’s battles for liberty and celebrations of your freedoms.
My message then is the same as today: Canada will always stand in solidarity with Ukraine.
Canada will always be with you, so your sacrifices lead to the peace, security, and prosperity that all Ukrainians – that all peoples – deserve.
Canada understands in our bones the importance of your struggle.
There is no qualification to our commitment.
Because your cause – freedom, democracy, sovereignty – is our cause.
And your history informs our history.
It’s a great honour to host you here in my home province of Alberta. Here on the Canadian Prairies where the horizon looks like the Ukrainian flag. Growing up in Alberta, my classmates bore your names, their parents and grandparents spoke your language.
It’s not surprising, because Ukrainian people first settled here before Alberta became a province in Canada. They first settled here in 1893.
They ploughed the fields, built schools and churches, opened businesses, and put down roots. And they remembered their heritage even as they became Canadians.
Today, over 350,000 Canadians of Ukrainian descent call Alberta home, including 70,000 right here in Calgary.
Now, Calgary is also home to some of Canada’s largest and most innovative companies – its ingenuity developed in places such as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).
During the Second World War, SAIT housed the Commonwealth’s largest wireless radio training centre.
Thousands of young Canadians connected armies across the Atlantic, by mastering what was then a new technology that helped win the war.
Today we are writing the next chapter of that story here.
We are at a critical moment in this war. Ukraine is now neutralising aerial threats from more than 600 kilometres away.
While Russia depends on authoritarian regimes to fuel its war machine, Ukraine is building entire industries on its own.
And just like the victory in Europe that this institute contributed to 80 years ago, Ukraine’s fate will hinge on what we do now.
To support the Ukrainian people in defending their territory.
To achieve a just and lasting peace.
When he launched his brutal, illegal war, Putin had the advantage of every conventional measure of military power.
Not least because Ukraine had agreed to drastically reduce its arsenal in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union.
What Ukraine lacked in firepower, it has more than made up with ingenuity and courage. Engineers have designed new airframes; welders have soldered defence.
Students have transformed basements and bunkers into test labs.
Drones have been at the centre of these efforts. In just four years, Ukraine has built a world-leading drone industry.
Ukraine is defining the future of defence and security.
Ukrainian drones costing a few hundred dollars have sunk warships worth hundreds of millions.
Ukraine is constantly innovating, and it’s now on track to build more drones than China, Russia, and every NATO member.
Canada can learn from you. We can continue to work together, and we can expand our partnership to defend your freedom – and to defend ours.
In 2015, the Canadian Armed Forces began training the Ukrainian Security Forces through Operation UNIFIER.
Canadian troops lent their expertise in advanced military skills, including tactical medical training and combat engineering.
Now, as Canada undertakes our largest defence rearmament in 70 years, drones will be at the forefront of our mission to build Canada strong, Canada safe, and Canada secure.
The Canadian Armed Forces currently have 2,000 drones in their inventory. In the years to come, we will need millions.
Earlier this year, the government launched the Defence Drone Initiative to expand our domestic drone manufacturing industry.
The initiative will deliver safe, reliable, and world-class drone systems for the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Coast Guard.
It is drawing on Canadian expertise across aerospace, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and secure communications.
Now that we have that framework in place, we are taking three major steps to build Canada’s sovereign drone capabilities, and in the process, deepen our partnership with Ukraine.
First, right here at home – inspired by Brave1, the successful model that Ukraine has developed – we are launching a national drone marketplace, giving individual units of the Canadian Armed Forces direct access to nearly 400 trusted Canadian suppliers, so that those units can obtain the drones they need, when they need them.
We’re starting now.
This is a key part of our plan to build industrial capacity here in Canada to produce millions of drones within the next two years.
Today’s contracts will increase the number of drones currently deployed by the Canadian Armed Forces tenfold.
Importantly, one-third of all the drones we manufacture will go to support Ukraine’s defence of its homeland.
Secondly, we are building business-to-business ties – partnering Canadian companies with Ukraine’s world-leading drone manufacturers.
Building on last summer’s agreement between Sentinel Research and Development and Airlogix, today, General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada and the Ukrainian company GreenTech have just signed a new agreement to further strengthen our nations’ industrial cooperation.
As a result, our industry in Canada will learn from the most battle-tested developers on earth.
And thirdly, Canada and Ukraine are forging a long-term partnership to jointly produce uncrewed systems, counter-drone technology, and priority munitions – combining Ukraine’s battlefield experience with Canadian manufacturing software and AI.
Together we’ll build the capabilities our militaries need, we’ll create good jobs in our countries, we’ll support Ukraine on the battlefield, and we will strengthen the sovereignty of both of our nations.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Canada has been one of the largest donors per capita.
Our support has been consistent and diversified, from sanctions against Russia, to equipment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to development assistance for civilians in need.
We have allocated nearly $9 billion in military aid – including $2 billion this year – for Leopard tanks and howitzers, hundreds of thousands of rounds of artillery ammunition, medical kits, and body armour for the women and men on the front lines.
As we meet today, Russia has been escalating its barbaric aerial warfare – indiscriminately targeting civilian populations. Ukraine’s air defences are ever more critical.
That is why, earlier today, Canada and Ukraine finalised an agreement to deliver critical air defence interceptors through the United States’ JUMPSTART mechanism.
This $350 million equipment package will help protect Ukraine’s people, infrastructure, and skies.
In addition to our defence cooperation, Canada and Ukraine are also focusing their efforts on key sectors.
Canada will contribute to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to repair energy infrastructure, increase storage capacity, and supply hospitals.
To help Ukrainians get through the winter, Canada will provide more than $430 million in loan guarantees for gas purchases.
And we are going to work more closely together on energy and critical minerals to ensure the reliability of supply chains.
We are working with our European allies on a pooled funding initiative to support Ukrainian veterans, and we are coordinating our efforts to rebuild critical infrastructure across Ukraine.
Today, Canada and Ukraine are looking beyond this war to the century ahead.
President Zelenskyy and I have just signed a declaration for a 100-year partnership. In the coming months, we’ll codify a long-term framework for cooperation across defence and security, trade and investment, reconstruction, energy, critical minerals, and technology.
Our two nations have been connected since 1893. This is a relationship that has flourished for over 100 years – and it will flourish in the century ahead, long after this war ends.
Ukrainians helped build Canada, and Canadians will help rebuild Ukraine.
We’ll work together to strengthen our economies, our security, and our sovereignty. This is a commitment, not simply to Ukraine’s victory, but a commitment to the future – Ukraine’s future as a secure and prosperous European democracy.
Canada has learned the lessons of history.
We know that Putin can never be trusted.
Since the Minsk agreements – and even this morning – Putin has broken his word time and again.
Putin is threatening your airspace and your cities, and he is destroying your fields.
Every indiscriminate attack; every strike against a hospital, a shopping mall, or a residential building; every order given to abduct children bears his signature.
Mr. President, when I stood with you in Kyiv, I said that when peace comes, we will not simply trust and verify. We will deter and fortify.
Deter Russia from thinking that they can ever again threaten Ukraine’s and Europe’s freedom.
Fortify the Ukrainian Armed Forces that have fought so valiantly and for so long.
Your fight is our fight, your struggle is our cause, and your independence will be our victory.
Slava Ukraini.
Source – Prime Minister’s Office
Joint statement by Prime Minister Carney and President Zelenskyy
Calgary, Alberta, September 10, 2026
“The Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met in Calgary on September 10, 2026, and signed the 100 Year Partnership Declaration, setting out their intention to elevate the relationship between their countries into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, and confirming their aligned nature.
The leaders recalled that Canada was the first Western country to recognise the restoration of Ukraine’s independence on December 2, 1991, and that more than 1.3 million Canadians of Ukrainian heritage sustain the bond between the two peoples.
The leaders condemned in the strongest terms the illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations and an assault on Euro-Atlantic security.
The leaders paid tribute to the courage of Ukraine’s people and its defenders, whose resistance has held not only a frontline against the Russian aggressor, but a border between the free world and tyranny.
Both leaders underscored the importance of Ukraine’s continued reform efforts in support of its path toward full European Union and NATO membership. Canada remains a committed partner in supporting these efforts.
The leaders reaffirmed that Ukraine’s security is integral to Euro-Atlantic security and that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO. Both leaders underscored the importance of further strengthening Ukraine’s interoperability with the Alliance and deepening practical cooperation with NATO and its Allies.
Meeting at a moment of global rupture, the leaders reaffirmed their intention to build a new order founded on trust, rooted in shared values, and underpinned by the strength and determination to uphold them. They remain determined to restore a comprehensive, just and lasting peace — one that is based on respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, including its territorial sea. There can be no decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.
Canada will continue to meet Ukraine’s most pressing military needs and sustain Operation UNIFIER, now extended to 2029. Canada will continue to strengthen Ukraine’s Armed Forces, with a particular focus on urgently needed air defence capabilities and interceptors, while continuing to provide training, military equipment, ammunition, and other critical military support. The two countries will deepen cooperation in intelligence, cyber defence, counter-drone and electronic disruption capabilities, and in countering hybrid threats and foreign information manipulation. Canada will continue to work with partners on a framework of politically and legally binding security guarantees to prevent any future aggression by the Russian Federation.
Building on the Letter of Intent on co-production signed in Kyiv on August 24, 2025, Canada and Ukraine will establish a long-term defence industrial partnership for the joint production of uncrewed systems, counter-drone and electronic disruption capabilities and ammunition, supported by research and technology transfer. They will facilitate predictable procurement for jointly produced equipment and work with partners to establish the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank.
Canada and Ukraine will expand trade and investment under the modernised Free Trade Agreement, facilitate public-private partnerships, and mobilise the capital and derisking solutions needed to support Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction. Canada will work with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to support macroeconomic stability and mobilise private capital.
The two countries will deepen cooperation on energy security and critical minerals, industries, and sustainable forest management and strengthen links among innovators and researchers in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space, biotechnology and digital government.
The leaders underscored the importance of further joint efforts to increase Ukraine’s civilian cyber resilience, particularly through the Tallinn Mechanism, as well as conducting further regular meetings within the bilateral cyber dialogue, initiated in June 2026 as an enhanced horizontal coordination format.
Canada and Ukraine will work together to support safe and secure navigation in the Black Sea, through strengthening the security and resilience of critical port infrastructure, and further disrupting and deterring Russia’s shadow fleet to counter its illegal, unsafe and hazardous activities.
Recognising Ukraine’s vital role in global food security, Canada will support Ukraine’s agricultural sector from planting to storage of agricultural products.
The leaders reaffirm their determination to hold the Russian Federation and its senior political and military leaders accountable for its war of aggression against Ukraine and for any violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law committed during the war. Canada and Ukraine welcome progress towards the operationalisation of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. The leaders will continue working together, including within the G7, to maintain international support and ensure the Special Tribunal’s timely operationalisation.
Canada and Ukraine also reaffirm their commitment to ensuring full and effective compensation for the damage caused by the aggression of the Russian Federation. The leaders will continue their joint efforts, including through the G7, to support the swift operationalisation of the International Claims Commission for Ukraine and advance a comprehensive international accountability and reparations framework.
Canada will maintain and tighten economic pressure on the Russian Federation and, with its G7 partners, will explore ways, consistent with domestic and international law, to put the full value of immobilised Russian Federation’s sovereign assets to work for Ukraine.
Canada and Ukraine, along with Norway, are convening a second conference on September 28-29 in Toronto to enhance efforts to secure the return, rehabilitation, and reintegration of forcibly transferred and deported Ukrainian children, unlawfully detained civilians, and prisoners of war.
Recognising the sacrifices made by Ukraine’s veterans and their families, the leaders agreed to launch a multi-donor initiative supporting their rehabilitation, reintegration and economic participation, and called on partners to join it. Canada and Ukraine will strengthen social cohesion for those most affected by the war, guided by inclusion,
gender equality and human dignity.
The leaders committed to strengthening people-to-people ties through cooperation in education, youth exchanges, culture, sport, health and the preservation of Ukrainian cultural heritage, especially in the context of the war following the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. The two countries will develop a partnership on migration and mobility in support of Ukraine’s recovery, including by initiating Ukraine’s addition to the conditional electronic travel authorization (eTA) regime.
The leaders are determined to place the Canada-Ukraine partnership on an enduring footing for the century ahead. The leaders will work to conclude a comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement built on three pillars — defence innovation, economic growth and reconstruction, and people-to-people ties.
Born of history and strengthened through adversity, the Canada-Ukraine partnership will promote a comprehensive, just and lasting peace and deliver for future generations.”
Source – Prime Minister’s Office
Ukrainian President: Ukraine and Canada signed documents on a 100-Year Partnership and Bilateral Cooperation in Defence and Energy
10 September 2026 – 23:23
In Calgary, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney signed the Ukraine-Canada Declaration for a 100 Year Partnership and the Joint Declaration on Enhancement of the Defence and Security Cooperation between Ukraine and Canada. In the presence of the leaders, the Joint Statement on Ukraine-Canada Energy Cooperation was also signed.
The Ukraine-Canada Declaration for a 100 Year Partnership provides for deeper bilateral cooperation. It will be based on innovation and partnership in defence, economic growth, and reconstruction. In addition, the document includes a provision expressing the intention to add Ukraine to the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) programme to facilitate travel by Ukrainians to Canada.
The Joint Declaration on Enhancement of the Defence and Security Cooperation between Ukraine and Canada is the first step towards the Drone Deal. It launches deeper bilateral cooperation in defence and the defence industry. This includes developing cooperation in security, with a focus on unmanned systems, the defence industry, cybersecurity, and technological development, including the exchange of relevant experience, technologies, and capabilities. Joint projects and the localisation of defence production in Ukraine and Canada are also envisaged.
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Canada Tim Hodgson signed the Joint Statement on Ukraine-Canada Energy Cooperation. It will help diversify natural gas supplies and facilitate the supply of liquefied natural gas from Canada to Ukraine. Cooperation in the nuclear sector will also be deepened, including the modernisation of Ukraine’s uranium mining and processing capabilities, advanced reactor technologies, and small modular reactors. In addition, Ukraine and Canada will cooperate in renewable energy and hydropower, grid resilience, and the reconstruction of Ukraine’s energy sector.
Canada will provide loan guarantees for Naftogaz through the EBRD totalling 757 million Canadian dollars. Export Development Canada will also allocate 200 million Canadian dollars to support projects in Ukraine, including in hydropower infrastructure. Canada will contribute 10 million Canadian dollars to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, bringing its total contribution to 100 million Canadian dollars.
Source – Ukrainian President