KYIV >> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked Independence Day on Sunday alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who said Ukraine would receive more than C$1 billion ($723 million) in military aid from a previously announced package next month.

Three and a half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zelenskyy is facing pressure from Washington to make concessions to Russia as President Donald Trump seeks to broker a peace deal.

“We are all working to ensure that the end of this war would mean the guarantee of peace for Ukraine, so that neither war nor the threat of war are left for our children to inherit,” Zelenskyy told a crowd of dignitaries in Kyiv’s Sophia Square, against the backdrop of an 11th century cathedral.

As well as Carney, on his first visit

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