Canada promises to help “Ukraine as long as it takes”

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday May 1 the continuation of their long-term cooperation program. “Canada will continue to provide them with military, humanitarian and financial assistance”assured the head of government, who undertook to help “Ukraine as long as it takes”. Follow our live.

An American visit to Brazil after Lula’s controversial comments on the conflict. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, will hold talks Tuesday in Brasilia with Brazilian government officials. Lula sparked controversy when he said on April 17 in Beijing that the United States should stop “to encourage war” in Ukraine and that the European Union should “start talking about peace”.

A new estimate of Russian losses. US intelligence estimates that 20,000 Russian fighters have been killed in Ukraine since December, and another 80,000 wounded in action, a White House spokesman said Monday. He said half of the dead belonged to the Russian private military group Wagner, and were mostly former prisoners “thrown into the fighting in Bakhmout (eastern Ukraine) without training or sufficient military command”.

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