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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 02:42 PM Jul 2016

Trudeau condemns Russia’s annexation of Crimea, vows ‘Canada will always stand by Ukraine’

Source: National Post (Canada)

KYIV — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his nine-year-old son, Xavier, making his public debut overseas, spent much of Monday visiting memorials of Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s, Nazi atrocities against Ukrainians during the Second World War and the slaughter in 1941 of 33,770 Jews by Hitler’s forces at Babi Yar.

But such reminders melded with talk about the country’s current war with Russia, which was triggered by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its subsequent direct and indirect military actions in eastern Ukraine.

“Canada will always stand by Ukraine,” Trudeau told Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko after the two leaders signed a free-trade agreement in an opulent, Soviet-era hall in the presidential palace.

While trade was the ostensible reason for their meeting and numerous compliments were exchanged regarding the more than 1.2 million Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, Ukraine’s David and Goliath struggle with the Kremlin over eastern Ukraine loomed over everything.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/trudeau-condemns-russias-annexation-of-crimea-while-vowing-canada-will-always-stand-by-ukraine



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Trudeau condemns Russia’s annexation of Crimea, vows ‘Canada will always stand by Ukraine’ (Original Post) uhnope Jul 2016 OP
k+r Blue_Tires Jul 2016 #1
You mean the 1.24% of GDP exboyfil Jul 2016 #2

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
2. You mean the 1.24% of GDP
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 03:56 PM
Jul 2016

that they spend on defense? They couldn't even protect their own border without their big brother.

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