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Canada plans to send Ukraine over 80K unarmed small rockets

WATCH: Canada's defence minister and other allies held a high-profile meeting with Volodymyr Zelenksyy in Germany. It was a chance for Ukraine’s leader to again plead with allies for the weapons he said are needed to fight off Russia. In an interview with Global News, Minister Bill Blair tells us what Canada is willing to give. Nathaniel Dove looks at whether that, and other countries' aid, will be enough.

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 Friday.

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Canada announced an initial shipment of 2,160 unarmed CRV7 rockets in June. 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 armored personnel carriers and 64 Coyote armored cars, which the Canadian armed forces are no longer using, Blair said.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Canada has committed C$4.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in military aid.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren in OttawaEditing by Matthew Lewis)

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