The Liberal government will dispatch more than 800 drones to Ukraine starting as early as this spring.
Defence Minister Bill Blair said at a press conference in Toronto that Ukraine had made “extraordinary progress” in the use of drone technologies over the past two years.
“They’ve told us very clearly they need many more drones,” he said Monday.
The SkyRanger R70 multi-mission Unmanned Aerial Systems are manufactured by Teledyne in Waterloo, Ont.
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