প্রকাশ: 09/05/2022
The world will do
everything possible to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin loses his
war in Ukraine, including keeping Moscow under sanctions for years, Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late on Sunday.
"What Putin needs to understand is that the West is
absolutely determined and resolved to stand against what he is doing,"
Trudeau told Reuters in an interview.
"His illegal war, his escalations, his crossing of red
lines by choosing to further invade Ukraine means that we will do as a world
everything we can to make sure that he loses."
Speaking on the sidelines of an unannounced visit to Ukraine
for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he calls a friend, Trudeau
said Putin is making a terrible mistake.
"He is inflicting atrocities upon civilians, and it's
all something that he is doing because he thought he could win. But he can only
lose," Trudeau said when asked what he would tell Putin on the eve of
Russia's commemorations of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two, which
Moscow calls the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
On Sunday, Europe commemorated the 77th anniversary of the
surrender of the Nazis. Russia celebrates the victory on May 9. Nazi Germany's
unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 pm on May 8, 1945, which was
May 9 in Moscow.
Trudeau also echoed a statement from the Group of Seven
issued earlier on Sunday, following a video call of G7 leaders with Zelensky,
on how Putin's "actions bring shame on Russia and the historic sacrifices
of its people" during World War Two.
"Quite frankly, on Victory in Europe Day, when we all
celebrate the victory over fascism of so many decades ago," Trudeau said,
"Vladimir Putin is bringing shame upon the memory of the millions of
Russians who fought and died in the fight for freedom and the fight against
fascism."
Putin, Russia's paramount leader since 1999 who will preside
over the anniversary celebrations on Monday, in recent years has used Victory
Day to needle the West from a tribute in Red Square before a parade of troops,
tanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Earlier, Trudeau said Canada will provide new weapons and
equipment for Ukraine and will reopen its embassy in Kyiv, the country's
capital.
Putin says that he launched a "special military
operation" on Feb 24 to disarm Ukraine and rid it of anti-Russian
nationalism fomented by the West. Ukraine and its allies say Russia launched an
unprovoked war.
Trudeau said all the countries that have imposed sanctions
on Moscow, which have taken a steep toll on the Russian economy, are determined
to keep them in place as long as necessary, even for years.
"Vladimir Putin cannot upend over 70 years of stability
and growth and prosperity for the world and expect to continue to benefit from
that stability, growth and prosperity," he said.
- REUTERS
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