Speaking to reporters in Warsaw on Aug. 25, Canada’s Defense Minister David McGuinty expressed confidence in Canada’s operational capacity. "We’ve just come back from Ukraine. We’ve been able to assess and see more clearly what the needs are.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has not ruled out the possibility that Canadian troops could be deployed to Ukraine as part of security guarantees under the Coalition of the Willing initiative. Source: Carney at a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv,