Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 1Canada plans to ban crude oil imports from Russia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
"Today we also announce that we plan to ban all imports crude oil from Russia", Trudeau said at a press conference.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in the early morning of February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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