Canada’s latest aid package: Over 80,000 rocket engines and warheads to Ukraine

Canada plans to send 80,840 surplus small unarmed air-to-surface rockets to Ukraine as well as 1,300 warheads in the coming months, Defense Minister Bill Blair said in a statement on September 6.

In June, Canada announced an initial shipment of 2,160 unarmed CRV7 rockets, Caliber.Az reports via foreign media.

Each CRV7 rocket can be equipped with warheads designed variously to hit buildings, tanks or soldiers.

Canada will also donate chassis assemblies from 29 M113 armoured personnel carriers and 64 Coyote armoured cars, which the Canadian armed forces are no longer using, Blair said.

Since the beginning of 2022, Canada has committed $4.5 billion in military assistance to Ukraine. This funding will allow Canada to deliver military assistance to Ukraine through 2029.

Canada and Ukraine are close partners with a long-standing defence relationship. Operation (Op) UNIFIER, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) military training and capacity building mission in Ukraine was launched in 2015 at the request of the Ukrainian government, and in 2023, was expanded and extended until March 2026.