(Ottawa) Canada is responding to the escalating fighting on Ukrainian soil by imposing sanctions on 14 close Kremlin aides, including two daughters of President Vladimir Putin.
Posted at 12:37 p.m.
Updated at 1:06 p.m.
The Trudeau government is following in the footsteps of the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, which imposed penalties two weeks ago on the eldest daughters of Kremlin strongman Maria Vorontsova, 36. , and Katerina Tikhonova, 35 years old.
At the same time, it sanctions 12 collaborators and oligarchs of the Russian regime “for having facilitated and allowed violations of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine”, specifies one on the site of Global Affairs Canada.
These sanctions notably impose asset freezes on the persons and entities concerned.
When Washington last April 6 announced sanctions against the two women who are very rarely seen in public, a senior Biden administration official claimed the president was using family members to hide assets.
With these recent additions, there are now more than 750 people and entities from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that Canada has punished since the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army on February 24.
And Ottawa is ready to continue to crack down, reiterated Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.
“We will continue to impose severe costs on the Russian regime in coordination with our allies and we will relentlessly seek accountability for their actions. They will have to answer for their crimes,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.
In response to Canadian sanctions, the Putin regime banned the vast majority of members of the House of Commons, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and members of the Senate of Canada from entering its territory.
The Canadian Prime Minister takes part in a meeting organized by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Tuesday about the war in Ukraine. Also taking part will be the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Romania, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO.