From coast-to-coast-to-coast, Canadians stand with Ukraine.
It’s been one year since Russia began it’s brutal and illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainians, day in and day out, continue to stand up for their country, for democracy, and for human rights. And Canada remains steadfast in our support.
Since Russia launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we’ve assisted Ukraine and Ukrainians at home and abroad by:
- Being the first country to revoke Russia’s and Belarus’s “Most Favoured Nation” status as trading partners under Canadian law;
- Imposing sanctions on over 1,500 individuals and entities directly involved or complicit in Putin’s invasion;
- Launching the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel, which made it easier, faster, and safer for Ukrainians to come to Canada;
- Processing over 160,000 applications from Ukrainians looking to immigrate;
- Expanding federal settlement programs including language training, orientation, and employment assistance;
- Providing one-time, direct payments of $3,000 dollars per adult and $1,500 per child to help new Ukrainians meet their basic needs after coming to Canada;
- Launching the Ukraine Sovereignty Bond and disbursing $2.45 billion in loans from its proceeds to Ukraine;
- Providing $115 million from Russian and Belarus tariff revenues to repair Kyiv’s power grid;
- Committing over $5 billion in military aid, humanitarian aid and developmental assistance, including:
- Providing over 6 million pounds of ammunition, weapons, winter equipment, and more donated by Canada and our allies and partners;
- Purchasing a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and associated munitions from the United States;
- Training for over 35,000 Ukrainian military and security personnel via Operation UNIFIER;
- Over $320 million in humanitarian assistance to respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and neighbouring countries;
- $96 million in development assistance funding to Ukraine to address emerging priorities for Ukrainian institutions, organizations and the people of Ukraine.