National Defence committee  As you are clearly pointing out, as I said earlier, we have found ourselves 23 years into independence with these loops in our development. Conscious decisions were made earlier to ensure that Ukraine could be penetrated by the Russian Federation and that it was dependent on the

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate this opportunity and I thank you for all the work done by the Parliament of Canada and by the governments of Canada to support Ukraine. I hope that this will stay the same in the future and that we Ukrainians will be contributing as donors and

National Defence committee  We do not yet have a clear indication regarding how things will be evolving and developing. However, we will be continuing to make our clear argument and explain the road map regarding how and for what purpose we are going to use this support and training, both in the anti-corrup

National Defence committee  You are right that people who live in the occupied territories are unfortunately subject to continuous information attacks by the Russian so-called media. I am glad we are not the only ones seeing the propagandist nature of the Russian media. It is functioning not only in the Rus

National Defence committee  Actually, there have been several great achievements in co-operation between the government and parliament with regard to pension reform, education reform, and medical reform. You can imagine these are three horizontal things impacting absolutely every citizen and every family in

National Defence committee  Yes, we have started these discussions from our end. We are ready to consider some special requirements, for example for Canada, in terms of granting visa-free access for any other country. If those requirements or those norms are not yet met by Ukraine, I think we are very ready

National Defence committee  That's another issue and possibility. I do know that colleagues from the Ukrainian defence industry Ukroboronprom are planning a visit to Canada at the end of November with very practical and, I hope, very interesting suggestions for common industrial co-operation in the defence

National Defence committee  First and foremost, I'd like to mention the political support. It doesn't have to be downgraded, because this is huge support, as well as moral and emotional support for each Ukrainian citizen. Canada has been instrumental in how we are rebuilding our armed forces. As I mentione

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. I'm glad to see you again as well. Thank you very much for raising this very specific issue of satellite imagery, which we were previously receiving from Canada. I know that both through our embassy and through other channels we are continuing this dialogu

National Defence committee  The judicial system is not a stand-alone system. Over these three years, we have managed to establish a totally new system of anti-corruption institutions, starting with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, and t

National Defence committee  First and foremost, unfortunately, even after 23 years of independence, we find ourselves in a situation in which we are still feeling the Soviet bureaucracy working in Ukraine. We saw that the procedures and rules we were functioning by were not transparent enough. We saw that,

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, honourable Chair. Distinguished members of the committee, I'm absolutely thrilled and grateful for this opportunity to address you today. I hope that this conversation will also be useful for the gathering of all the information you might want. Once again, I