OTTAWA --
Overseas Affairs Minister Melanie Joly stated Thursday that Russia would face extreme sanctions if it makes additional strikes towards Ukraine.
Joly was talking from Brussels after assembly her counterpart within the European Union, and after travelling to Ukraine and France earlier this week as Russia plenty 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border, stoking fears of warfare with Europe.
Canada has already imposed a prolonged sequence of sanctions associated to Russia relationship again to 2014 when its navy forcibly annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
The sanctions had been levelled beneath the Particular Financial Measures Act and have focused greater than 440 people and entities and have aligned with related measures taken by allies such because the European Union and Britain, says World Affairs Canada.
The sanctions freeze the belongings and prohibit the conduct of monetary transactions with any entity on the record. Additionally they impose a ban on journey to Canada to any particular person on the record.
World Affairs Canada says the sanctions are a response to "to the gravity of Russia's violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and grave human rights violations which were dedicated in Russia."
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 20, 2022.
Canada's Overseas Minister Melanie Joly speaks throughout a media convention with European Union overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (Johanna Geron, Pool Picture by way of AP)
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