Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is criticizing Canada for allowing repaired gas turbines to return to Germany, which will be used for Russian gas delivery.
In an address on July 11, Zelenskyy announced that his foreign ministry summoned Canada’s envoy to Ukraine to be admonished over an “absolutely unacceptable exception to the sanctions regime against Russia.”
“This decision on the exception to sanctions will be perceived in Moscow exclusively as a manifestation of weakness,” he said.
“If a terrorist state can squeeze out such an exception to sanctions, what exceptions will it want tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?”
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson said on July 9 that Russia was intent on “further destabilizing” the energy sector in Europe….