Justin Trudeau arrives on a surprise visit to Ukraine – La Nación 2023

2023-06-11 12:03:38

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, arrived in kyiv this Saturday, on an unannounced trip to the Ukrainian capital, at a time when fighting with Russian forces in the south of the country is intensifying. The leader, who traveled accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (who speaks Ukrainian), seeks to demonstrate his country’s support for Ukraine.

Trudeau, who is scheduled to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, laid a wreath in front of a wall that shows the faces of fallen soldiers since the Russian invasion began in 2014. On that occasion he was accompanied by a military band. He also visited an open-air dump of destroyed military vehicles.

“Welcome to Ukraine, Mr. Prime Minister,” Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk tweeted, along with an image showing him shaking hands with Trudeau. Canada, a country with a large Ukrainian émigré community, is one of kyiv’s main allies and has delivered military aid and training for more than 36,000 Ukrainian soldiers. In addition, the North American country, a member of the G7 and the I’LL TAKEadopted sanctions against Russia.

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Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Oleksandr Polishchuk presented the Canadian prime minister with a box of shrapnel from a shell that fell in Odessa, Ukraine’s large Black Sea port city. “It’s a little reminder of the way Ukraine suffers from Russian missile bombardments,” Polishchuk said in English, on the same day the attackers launched drones and missiles at various Ukrainian cities.

Trudeau’s visit comes at a time when Russian authorities are reporting several large-scale Ukrainian attacks on the positions of invading Moscow troops in the south and east of the country. These combats could form part of the great counteroffensive that Ukraine has been preparing for months. Ukrainian authorities and the military, bolstered by shipments of Western material, are keeping a low profile and have not commented on Russia’s claims.

Fuente: dw.com