Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada will join allies in imposing severe sanctions on Russian officials if the country takes further military action to compromise Ukrainian sovereignty.
Russia has positioned about 100,000 troops across Ukraine’s borders, along with tanks and other heavy artillery, stoking fears across Europe of an invasion, but Russia has denied it intends to do that.
“We reject Russia’s false narrative that Ukraine or NATO are threats,” she said during a news conference in Brussels Thursday.
“They can choose meaningful dialogue or swift, severe consequences.”
Joly says Russia is already in Ukraine and that Canada and its
