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If it isn’t the pandemic, then it’s geopolitics and looming armed conflicts that continue to disrupt travel.
Lebawit Lily Girma
The Canadian federal government has actually advised its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine due to “continuous Russian aggressiveness and military accumulation around the nation”.
Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will check out Kyiv next week to reaffirm Canadian support for Ukrainian sovereignty and enhance efforts to prevent “aggressive actions” by Russia, the Ottawa stated earlier.
“We have altered the risk level for Ukraine to prevent non-essential travel due to continuous Russian aggressiveness and military accumulation around the country”, the Canadian government stated in a travel advisory released late Saturday.
Moscow has actually stationed more than 100,000 soldiers near the border with Ukraine. and the United States stated on Friday it feared Russia was preparing a pretext to attack if diplomacy stopped working to fulfill its objectives.
Canada, with a sizeable and politically influential population of Ukrainian descent, has taken a hard line with Russia given that its addition of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Joly will satisfy Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal and travel to the west of the country to talk to a 200-strong Canadian training mission that has actually existed because 2015.
Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Morgan and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman spoke on Friday and vowed continued close coordination to discourage more Russian aggressiveness versus Ukraine and called for Russian de-escalation, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Saturday.
Russia denies plans to assault Ukraine however states it might take undefined military action unless its demands– including a promise by the NATO alliance never ever to admit Kyiv– are fulfilled.
Russia did not go out of conferences on the crisis with the United States and European nations last week, but the talks ended with U.S. authorities alerting that the threat of a Russian intrusion of Ukraine stays high.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday and “highlighted that any military incursion into Ukraine would have major consequences, including collaborated sanctions”.
Canada has imposed punitive procedures on more than 440 people and entities over the annexation of Crimea.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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