Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly delivers a speech following a meeting and press conference held alongside Romanian counterpart Bogdan Aurescu, in Bucharest, Romania, March 7, 2022. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS
March 15, 2022 - 14:54
(Reuters)
- Canada said on Tuesday it was imposing sanctions on 15 Russian officials who
enabled and supported President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine to apply
additional pressure on Moscow to reverse course.
The new
sanctions were announced ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's
expected virtual address to the Canadian parliament at 11:15 am (1515 GMT).
"President
Putin made the choice to further his illegal and unjustifiable invasion, and he
can also make the choice to end it by immediately ending the senseless violence
and withdrawing his forces," Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.
"Canada
will not hesitate to take further action should the Russian leadership fail to
change course," Joly said in a statement.
Canada,
like many other Western nations, has imposed broad sanctions on Russia after
the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. It has also closed its airspace and ports
to Russian vessels, sent lethal military aid to Ukraine and asked the
International Criminal Court to probe alleged war crimes by Russian forces.
Moscow
calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation" to demilitarise
and "denazify" the country. Ukraine and the West have dismissed that
justification as baseless propaganda.
(Reporting
by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru and Steve Scherer in Ottawa, Editing by Chizu
Nomiyama and Franklin Paul)
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/canada-imposes-sanctions-on-15-russian-officials/47434158
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