Young soldiers practise military skills on a training ground near Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 19, 2025. Anatolii Lysianskyi/Ukraine’s 127th Separate Brigade/via AP
Ottawa is no longer planning on sending guns collected through the federal buyback program to Ukraine after the country expressed “extremely limited” interest in the firearms.
Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government had committed to working with the Ukrainian government to send prohibited guns from Canadian firearms businesses obtained through the buyback program to Ukraine to support its defence against Russia.
