Canada targets 74 people and businesses in Belarus, Russia with new sanctions

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new sanctions on 74 people and businesses inRussiaand Belarus. The G7 leaders discussed the threat to world stability due to theUkrainian invasion.

Sanctions include 46 organizations related to Russia's defense sector and 15 Ukrainians who support Russia's occupation of the country.

The Government of Canada has also sanctioned 13 people and two organizations related to the Belarusian government and defense.

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Trudeau will also sanction those associated with state-sponsored disinformation and advertising agents in order to counter the Kremlin's disinformation.

Canada also bans the export of advanced technologies that enhance Russia's domestic defense manufacturing capacity.

Canada also bans the export and import of advanced technologies and commodities that can be used to manufacture weapons to Belarus. increase. Export of a wide range of luxury goods between Canada and Belarus.

Trudeau also announced that Canada, along with the United States, United Kingdom and Japan, will ban the import of certain gold commodities from Russia and keep them out of the formal international market.

The announcement was made at a two-hour meeting with the President of Ukraine. Later, it was done in writing on Monday. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and G7 leader at the summit in Germany. Zelenskyy appeared in effect and told leaders that the country would need help to rebuild its infrastructure.

The leaders met in a bright and beautiful conference room in Schloss Ermau, Germany. This meeting room is a true mountaintop castle surrounded by blooming meadows and stunning views.

Zelensky appeared on a small monitor overlooking a stone-faced group in front of a gray background.

The conflict has been an ongoing theme through a meeting with German global leaders of Trudeau at the Commonwealth Summit in Rwanda last week.

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Zelenskyy thanked G7 leaders According to Canadian government officials who gave a briefing on condition that they were not named, stricter sanctions against Russia, more defensive military support , And in support of Canada's request to help rebuild the bombed and destroyed communities and infrastructure after the conflict has subsided.

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He argued that the government should now start thinking about the job.

Russia will issue its own series of new sanctions against Canada on Monday against 43 Canadians, including former Prime Minister's adviser Jerry Butts and conservative strategist Jenny Burn. Announced measures.

Trudeau spoke to Zelensky on the first day of the G7 Summit and asked the leader what he needed. According to Zelenskyy's Twitter account, the two talked about strengthening defense support against a confused country.

In the first session of the day, the leaders of the world's most developed nations devoted themselves to discussing the war and listening to Zelensky's plea.

Prior to the meeting, Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, the moderator of the summit with Trudeau, said from Manorville, or Schloss in German, in the meadow between the building and the mountain landscape. I talked when I was walking to one.

"We are careful to support Ukraine as much as possible, but we also avoid a major conflict between Russia and NATO," Schortz told the media in a photo shoot with Trudeau. Told. ..

The night before, in Kieu, the capital of Ukraine, a Russian missile attack shattered the general tranquility of several weeks. According to the mayor, the missile attacked kindergartens and homes, killing a man and injuring women and children.

G7 leaders are united on Russian accusations, but are invited to the summit but are expected to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has strengthened economic and diplomatic relations with Russia. ing. The last few months.

On Sunday, the United Kingdom announced new sanctions against Russia. This will ban Russia's import of gold, the country's largest non-energy export.

The UK government has stated that the same applies to Canada, the United States and Japan, and the combined effort will keep Russia out of the formal market. The idea is to "increase pressure on Russia's war machines" and to squeeze the country out of the funds to fund the conflict.

For the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Russia was poised to default its external debt on Sunday, further moving the country away from the global financial system.

Russia calls defaults artificial because it has the money to pay its debt, but says sanctions have frozen foreign exchange reserves held abroad.

— File from the Associated Press

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