Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on a surprise visit to Kyiv, and has met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as the Ukrainian military stepped up its long-anticipated counteroffensive to drive the Russian army out of occupied eastern and southern regions of the battered country.
Trudeau, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, arrived in the capital on Saturday as Zelenskyy’s government struggles to assess the damage and mount further downstream evacuations following the destruction of the giant Nova Kakhovka dam.
Both Kyiv and Moscow blame each other for the collapse, which U.S. intelligence agencies and a Norwegian research foundation — citing seismic data — said on Friday was
