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What did Canada pledge Kyiv after the Kakhovka dam breach?
Summary
A look back at the Canadian aid package announced on 10 June 2023, days after the Kakhovka Dam was breached.
What did Canada offer Ukraine in the days after the Kakhovka Dam disaster? Looking back at 15 June 2023, the most recent public pledge in the reporting came on 10 June, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $500 million military aid package for Ukraine.
The package included 288 AIM-7 missiles. Alongside it, Trudeau announced a separate $10 million humanitarian aid package intended to help victims of the Kakhovka dam collapse.
The disaster behind the pledge
The Kakhovka Dam was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower Dnipro river in Kherson Oblast. The dam was under the control of the Russian military, which had seized it in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Many experts concluded that Russian forces likely blew up a segment of the dam to hinder the planned Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukraine specifically blamed Russia's 205th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Russian authorities have denied the accusations.
The Canadian announcement therefore combined two tracks: military support for Ukraine's defence and humanitarian money aimed at people affected by the flooding.
