Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says the new measures impose restrictions on 33 entities in the Russian defence sector
She says the organizations have provided support to the Russian military – directly or indirectly – and are therefore complicit in the pain and suffering stemming from Vladimir Putin’s unjustifiable war in Ukraine.
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Canada has levied sanctions on more than 1,100 individuals and entities. On Sunday, Russian forces shelled government-controlled Kharkiv and sent reinforcements toward Izyum to the southeast in a bid to break Ukraine’s defences, the Ukrainian military command said.
In a late-night video message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argued that Russia’s aggression “was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone.” The “entire European project is a target,” he said.
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