The world is determined to prevent Putin’s victory in Ukraine, Trudeau said

What Putin needs to understand is that the West is fully determined to stand up against what he is doinghe said in an interview with Reuters on the sideline of a surprise visit to Ukraine where the Canadian leader met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, presented as a friend.

His illegal war, his rise, his crossing the red lines in choosing to further invade Ukraine means that we the world will do everything we can to ensure that he is defeated.added Mr. Trudeau, who believes Vladimir Putin was making a horrible mistake.

He inflicts cruelty on civilians, and he does it because he thinks he can win. But he will only losesaid Justin Trudeau, asked what he would say to the Russian president as he prepared to commemorate Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II on Monday.

To mark Victory dayVladimir Putin, who has been in power in Moscow since 1999, used to watch from a tribune in Red Square a parade of soldiers and tanks which also displayed rockets and intercontinental missiles, while military planes of supersonic jets, among others, are flying. over the area.

From the beginning of Russia’s offensive to Ukraine, the head of the Kremlin has regularly compared what he describes asspecial military operations nationalists in kyiv to the challenge posed by Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler to the Soviet Union in 1941.

Our common duty is to prevent the resurgence of Nazism which has caused so much suffering to the people of various countries.said Vladimir Putin in a message addressed to the populations of 12 former Soviet Union countries, including Ukraine and Georgia.

Ukraine and its allies deny Russia’s accusations and they believe that Russia launched an unprovoked war with the aim of rebuilding the Soviet Union.

For his part, Vladimir Putin criticizes the United States for using Ukraine to threaten Russia.