Ottawa. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 2Canada will announce new sanctions on Russia in the coming days, Treasury Secretary Chrystia Freeland said. «I want to assure all Canadians, and I want to assure Russia that we are preparing additional measures, and we will announce them in the coming days,» Freeland said at a briefing. She also did not rule out the possibility of imposing sanctions on the assets of Russian oligarchs and Russian companies based in the country due to events in Ukraine.
The German Economy Ministry commented on the sanctions against Russia»We are carefully studying the assets of all Russian oligarchs and companies based in Canada. We check them, and no options are ruled out,» she said Freeland. Earlier on Tuesday, North American Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the Canadian authorities intend to maintain economic sanctions against Russia until it admits its mistake and withdraws its troops from the territory. territory of Ukraine. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on Thursday, February 24. 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 the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
