Justin Trudeau additionally visited an open-air exhibition that includes destroyed navy autos.
Kyiv, Ukraine:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced go to to Kyiv on Saturday as Ukrainian forces had been engaged in fierce preventing towards Russia on the southern entrance line.
Justin Trudeau, who is because of meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a while Saturday, positioned flowers by a wall displaying the faces of troopers killed in fight whereas a navy orchestra performed, AFP journalists noticed.
He additionally visited an open-air exhibition that includes destroyed navy autos.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Oleksandr Polishchuk handed Trudeau a container holding shrapnel from a rocket that fell on the Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa.
A gaggle of Ukrainian troopers who acquired coaching in Canada spoke with Trudeau. One among them, Colonel Petro Ostapchuk, instructed reporters the troops acquired coaching for elite shooters, engineers and younger commanders.
“It is an ideal privilege to fulfill the prime minister,” he stated.
Canada, which hosts a big Ukrainian diaspora, has been certainly one of Kyiv’s key allies for the reason that Russian invasion.
Ottawa has supplied Ukraine with vital navy assist, skilled greater than 36,000 troopers and adopted sanctions towards Moscow.
Justin Trudeau’s go to comes as Russia has reported thwarting Ukrainian assaults within the east and south that some observers have interpreted as the beginning of Kyiv’s anticipated large-scale counter-offensive.
Ukraine has thus far minimised the significance of the assaults.
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