Canada will provide Ukraine a non-lethal military aid to eleven million dollars, said the head of the Ministry of defense of the country Rob Nicholson.

Aid is expected to arrive in Ukraine on the last working day of the week, informs television channel.

This amount will be applied to the equipment for the military and their training. For example, 5 million will be spent on protective gear, as well as among them from the cold, 3 million on equipment for explosive ordnance disposal, million for communications equipment, million on equipment for night and thermal vision, another million - on medical training.

Canada had already sent to Ukraine $ 55 million in aid and training. So, in the last month of summer Ukrainian border guards received from the government of Canada 32 tons of military equipment price of five million dollars.

first it was announced that Ukraine has received a loan from the Canadian export credit Agency 200 million canadian dollars. Borrowing carried out by decision of the Ukrainian government for payment of the state budget. Funds from the loan were transferred to the accounts of the government of September 30.

Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were 4, 3 thousands of civilians, almost 10 thousand were injured. Brokered by Russia and the OSCE agreed in Minsk truce from 5 September. After the past 2 November in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics elections fire in the Donbass intensified, the parties blame each other in violation of the Minsk agreements.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.

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