Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada will be sending artillery ammunition and four more Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the new commitments at an armoury in Toronto on Friday. He said the war and all the suffering it has brought are the result of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Trudeau met virtually with other G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. The G7 leaders released a statement following that meeting reaffirming their support for Ukraine and promising more weapons, as well as funding for the eventual rebuild of the country. Trudeau announced new sanctions as well against 122 individuals and 13 entities, including members of the Russian Parliament, ministers and their families. There are also new sanctions against the country’s defence industry and prohibitions on exports of certain chemicals used in the manufacture of electronics.Article content
“We are pushing for more and obviously we have more than four tanks that we can send. We have more to do with the year ahead as the world continues as Russia’s war continues, and it’s not Canada alone. Canada’s part of a strong international group of countries that support Ukraine.”Article content “A year ago there was this notion that anything anybody did was going to provoke Putin. And I think that was not a correct assumption in the sense that Putin didn’t need a lot to be provoked.”Article content
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