Carney says he won't rule out Canadian troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees

 Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said in Kyiv on Sunday he would not rule out the presence of Canadian troops in Ukraine as part of future proposed security guarantees, the framework of which is currently being worked out by Ukraine and its allies.

Carney was speaking at a news conference alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky marked Ukraine’s Independence Day on Sunday alongside Carney, who said Ukraine would receive more than C$1 billion (US$723 million) in military aid from a previously announced package next month.

Three and a half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky is facing pressure from Washington to make concessions to Russia as US President Donald Trump seeks to broker a peace deal.

“We are all working to ensure that the end of this war would mean the guarantee of peace for Ukraine, so that neither war nor the threat of war are left for our children to inherit,” Zelensky told a crowd of dignitaries in Kyiv’s Sophia Square, against the backdrop of an 11th century cathedral.

As well as Carney, on his first visit to Ukraine since taking office in March, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, attended the ceremony. Zelensky presented Kellogg with a state honour.

“We need peace,” Zelensky told Kellogg as he handed him the medal in a leather case.

Zelensky acknowledged the human cost of the war, but said that Ukrainians would fight to remain on their land.

Ukraine is now working with its European allies to draft potential frameworks for post-war security guarantees for Kyiv, which Trump has expressed openness to.

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