OTTAWA --
International Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to the Poland-Ukraine border on Tuesday to make it possible for Canada's newest provide of navy support flows into the war-ravaged nation.
Her go to comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced Monday that Canada was sending anti-tank weapons and upgraded ammunition to Ukraine, which amounted to a big improve in deadly navy support.
"After all, that is along with our three earlier shipments of deadly and non-lethal gear," Trudeau mentioned.
He added Canada has bolstered its presence within the area so it could possibly fast-track immigration purposes for Ukrainians who need to come to Canada.
Joly mentioned she may even be assembly along with her Polish counterparts in Warsaw to debate the refugee disaster spawned by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"My function in that is to make it possible for this support will get within the arms of Ukrainian troopers which might be combating for his or her life and combating for his or her motherland," Joly informed reporters from Geneva on Monday.
Joly earlier informed a United Nations panel that Russia lied to the world within the run-up to its invasion of Ukraine.
"Russia is the one one accountable for this disaster. It selected to resort to lies and violence and fabricate all of the items of a disaster to attempt to undermine the rule of regulation and violate the rights of individuals," Joly informed the UN Human Rights Council assembly in Geneva.
"Worse, they're making an attempt to justify their struggle by spreading a false rhetoric and making an attempt to control the rules of human rights to assist their unlawful and illegitimate violence."
Joly was in Geneva after Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for talks earlier within the day in an try and defuse the most important land battle on the continent because the Second World Conflict.
Outmatched Ukrainian forces had been holding off the onslaught of a land, air and sea assault by Russia as President Vladimir Putin raised the stakes additional by putting his nation's nuclear forces on alert.
Requested on a media video convention what she thought in regards to the menace, Joly mentioned it was "insanity."
Bob Rae, the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, provided a harsher evaluation in an interview from New York.
"We will not be buffaloed or bullied by that form of a tactic," Rae mentioned.
"He is aware of if he has any sensible bone in his physique, he is aware of what the implications will probably be … for him and for his authorities and for his folks."
Rae spoke after denouncing the invasion in a speech earlier than the UN Basic Meeting, telling Russia it had a accountability to play by the worldwide guidelines that it helped write when it helped create the UN after the Second World Conflict.
"We're not asking any nation state, any member state to do us a favour. We're asking them to observe the foundations and to observe the regulation," Rae mentioned, waving a well-worn blue booklet of the UN's founding constitution. "It signifies that there aren't any second-class states on this group."
Within the interview, Rae mentioned he wished use his speech to name Russia out as "bully" and an "abuser," and he additionally derided the lies that he mentioned Putin and his supporters had been now telling the world, together with Putin's justification that he's saving Ukraine from the clutches of Nazis.
"This try and smear all Ukrainians and the Ukrainian authorities or anybody who's happy with being Ukrainian … to smear everybody as a Nazi is a horrible lie. It is a horrendous lie," mentioned Rae.
Requested what he considered the myriad or pre-invasion assurances by Putin and his diplomats that they'd no intention of attacking Ukraine, Rae mentioned: "This authorities underneath President Putin is profoundly cynical, and a authorities that is drowning in lies and propaganda.
"You recognize, you'll be able to take the boy out of the KGB, however you'll be able to't take the KGB out of the boy."
Joly additionally condemned the arrests of Russian residents who've protested the struggle in demonstrations throughout their nation.
"We name on Russia to respect the human rights not solely of Ukrainians, but additionally of its personal residents, who by 1000's have taken to the streets in protest of this unjust struggle."
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced Monday a right away ban on all Canadian monetary establishments from conducting transactions with the Russian Central Financial institution.
Along with that prohibition, Canada is imposing an asset freeze and a dealings prohibition on Russian sovereign wealth funds.
"Canada and its allies proceed to take concerted motion to make sure that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will probably be a strategic failure. This has by no means been achieved earlier than at this scale – at the moment we're taking a historic step by instantly censuring Russia's central financial institution," Freeland mentioned in a written assertion.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 28, 2022.