"They confirmed the continuation of their long-term support of the people of Ukraine," the press service of the Canadian Defense Ministry.

The United States and Canada will not stop supporting Ukraine in its quest to restore territorial integrity and sovereignty over temporarily occupied territories. This, among other topics, it was in Vancouver at a meeting of defense ministers of the countries of James Mattis and Khardzhit Sadzhan, respectively, writes Ukrinform.

"Minister Sajjan and Secretary Mattis confirmed the continuation of their continued support of the people of Ukraine, as well as the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country," the press attache of the head of the Ministry of Defense of Canada.

In addition, the ministers touched upon the issues of peacekeeping in the world, "exchanged views on the future of peacekeeping operations", and discussed the problems on the Korean Peninsula.

Mattis visited Ukraine on a visit to Independence Day in 2017, and Sadzhan, who had already tried on embroidery, arrived in Kiev a month later.

December 21, 2017 US President Donald Trump Administration approved commercial supplies of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine for $ 41.5 million. The State Department issued an appropriate license that covers a certain list of weapons in the categories of semi-automatic and automatic infantry weapons, including the Barrett M107A1 rifle for snipers (an improved version of the US large-caliber rifle Barrett M82, launched in 2011), combat shotguns, silencers, flame arresters , optics for military rifles and other.

Later, US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said that at least part of the supply of lethal weapons from the US government would be free of charge.

Former NATO Deputy Secretary General and former US ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow believes that the supply of US lethal weapons to Kiev will "stop the impunity of the Russian Federation," and the Russian Federation called the "way to war" such supplies to Ukraine.

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