Earlier Monday, Trudeau announced that Canada will provide $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using revenues from frozen Russian assets, after years of Ottawa promising to forfeit holdings associated with Russia’s government and its oligarchs.
Charlie Angus, a member of Canada's Parliament, predicted that the world "will be forced" to treat America "the way we treat Putin" due to Trump.
He and Zelenskyy forged a bond in 2019 during the Ukrainian president’s first official visit to Canada. Even then, Trudeau promised “to stand with Ukraine against Russian interference and ...
The Ukrainian leader also hoped that the three-year-old war with Russia will end this year. Responding to a reporter’s question, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he hopes to finish war ‘this year’.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to be in Kyiv on Monday along with a dozen other world leaders as Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of that country.