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What Canada and the EU offered Ukraine in January 2022
Summary
Ottawa's extended training mission and a European Commission aid announcement showed Western backing taking concrete form.
What did Western support for Ukraine look like on 26 January 2022? In Canada's case, it meant a longer military commitment and some reinforcements.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Operation Unifier would be extended for three years. He said 60 more troops would be deployed to Ukraine in the coming days. His government also announced a shipment of non-lethal equipment and the sharing of intelligence.
A package from Brussels
Two days earlier, on 24 January 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had announced an aid package for Ukraine worth €1.2 billion.
Reading the two together
The two announcements came from different actors and took different forms: one was military and logistical, the other financial. Taken together, they show that in the last week of January 2022 partners were attaching specific commitments to their political support for Kyiv. The Canadian measures were explicitly limited to non-lethal equipment, alongside the longer mission and the intelligence sharing.
