{"id":729531,"date":"2026-06-11T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:04:10","slug":"ukraine-war-russia-calls-canada-warmonger-for-drone-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729531\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: Russia calls Canada ‘warmonger’ for drone deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson referred to Canada as a ‘warmonger’ over its drone production deal with Ukraine. <\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 Moscow called Canada a \u201cwarmonger\u201d for signing a drone production deal with Ukraine and vowed to publish the address of a Canadian company working with Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Defence Minister David McGuinty said Canada will not be intimidated.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Ottawa announced a corporate partnership between Canadian and Ukrainian drone makers that could see drones made in Canada deployed to Ukraine\u2019s front line.<\/p>\n

The deal involves Ukrainian company Airlogix and Canadian drone maker Sentinel R&D, which is based in Hamilton, Ont.<\/p>\n

\"\"Russia Canada Ukraine Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attends Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s annual news conference in Moscow on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo\/Pavel Bednyakov) <\/p>\n

At a press briefing Wednesday in Moscow, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in Russian that she will be sharing the address of the Ontario company involved.<\/p>\n

She argued the deal allows Ukraine to hide vital military supplies in a third country and that Canada is not living up to its peacemaker rhetoric when it behaves like \u201ca warmonger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s ambassador in Ottawa has said the drone deal means Canada is seeking to profit from the ongoing conflict \u2014 which Russia insists is not a war. He and Zakharova both said Moscow is taking Canada\u2019s drone deal into account in Russia\u2019s military and political planning.<\/p>\n

\"\"david mcguinty National Defence Minister David McGuinty responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sean Kilpatrick <\/p>\n

McGuinty said military officials work to keep Canada safe and Ottawa will continue to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would expect to see the Russians to be critical, because they don\u2019t appreciate the fact that NATO is coming together to assist a country that\u2019s in need,\u201d he told reporters on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to monitor the situation, but we\u2019re going to continue in steadfast support of our Ukrainian colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and its full-scale invasion in 2022 has caused a rapid evolution in drone technology, which now accounts for most of the casualties in the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 10, 2026<\/p>\n

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson referred to Canada as a ‘warmonger’ over its drone production deal with Ukraine.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24803,43,713,47,44,714,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-729531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-defence","tag-headlines","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}