Ukraine also signed a security agreement with Canada and Italy

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Novosti” news agency, according to Ukrainian news media, yesterday Canada and Italy signed a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine. This report states: “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed an agreement on security cooperation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”

It is mentioned that The signing of this security cooperation document with this North American country means that Ottawa will support Ukraine in the amount of more than 3 billion Canadian dollars in 2024. The Prime Minister of Canada traveled to Kyiv on Saturday to sign this document.

Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, also came to Ukraine to conclude a similar agreement from Italy.

“Europe and the West are here to celebrate an important action, because here the Ukrainians are protecting what they love,” Maloney said in a meeting with Zelenskiy. In fact, they defend us. They gave us the opportunity to be here today and say that this land is part of our home and we will do everything we can to protect it.”

On Friday, Denmark concluded a similar agreement with Ukraine. As part of the ten-year cooperation, the Kingdom of Denmark will provide Kyiv with military aid in the form of communications equipment, radar, drones and other military equipment worth 1.8 billion euros. According to Igor Zhovkova, the deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine, after the expiration of this contract, it can be extended if the parties agree, and Denmark became the first country that is not part of the G7 group and signs such a document with Ukraine.

Last week, German Chancellor Olaf Schulz announced that Berlin and Kiev signed a bilateral agreement on security guarantees and long-term support. This document was signed by Schulz himself and Vladimir Zelensky, who traveled to Berlin for this purpose.

The details of this document are still unknown, but it is not expected to be difficult security guarantees that are offered to NATO members. The German Prime Minister promised the people of his country that Berlin’s security guarantees and long-term support for Kiev do not mean that Berlin will intervene in a military conflict with Russia. According to him, no German soldiers will be sent to Ukraine to participate in the conflict.

Scholz noted that Germany will help Ukraine in the amount of 15 billion euros in 2024. Of this amount, 7 billion euros will be used to supply weapons to Kiev.

In addition to this last Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also signed a bilateral agreement on Security guarantees were signed. Macron said at a press conference in Paris: “This agreement is to show our determination to support Ukraine in the long term.”

This agreement which was signed for a 10-year period, will include the supply of military equipment needed by the Ukrainian army, the training of Ukrainian soldiers and the strengthening of the country’s defense industry. France has also pledged to provide up to €3 billion in additional military aid to Kyiv by 2024, as well as help Kyiv restore the country’s territorial integrity within internationally recognized borders and support its membership in the European Union and NATO.

Olga Stefanyshina, the first deputy prime minister of Ukraine on European and Euro-Atlantic integration last week on the sidelines of the conference Munich security announced that the security guarantee agreement with the United States may be signed before the NATO summit in Washington in July.

He explained, technically “, negotiations have been conducted and a strategic statement has been adopted in this regard, and this agreement can be signed even before the NATO summit”. that the security guarantee agreement will also be signed.

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