Putin's conduct signal of failing Ukraine invasion: Canada's Trudeau | World News

Russian President Vladimir Putin's army mobilization order and threats to make use of nuclear weapons present that the Ukraine invasion is failing, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated on Wednesday, condemning Moscow's announcement as unacceptable.

"Canada condemns Putin's irresponsible escalation of the struggle, his partial army mobilization, his nuclear threats, in addition to Russia's rushed referendums to attempt to annex elements of Ukraine are unacceptable," Trudeau informed reporters in New York, the place he's attending the United Nations Normal Meeting.

"Putin's conduct solely goes to indicate that his invasion is failing," Trudeau stated.

In a televised handle earlier on Wednesday, Putin introduced Russia's first wartime mobilization since World Conflict Two and plans to annex elements of Ukraine. He additionally threatened to make use of nuclear weapons to defend Russia, declaring: "It is not a bluff".

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Trudeau stated Putin's conscription order was "a step nearer to admitting what he has not needed to confess to Russians ... an instance of issues not going to his plan."

Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "particular army operation" to "disarm" its neighbor and root out harmful nationalists. The West says it's a land seize and an try and reconquer a rustic that broke freed from Moscow's rule with the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Putin's speech adopted mounting casualties and battlefield setbacks for Russian forces, who've been pushed from areas that they had captured in northeast Ukraine in a Ukrainian counter-offensive this month and are slowed down within the south.

Trudeau stated the threats of nuclear weapons must be taken critically and Western allies must "stand very firmly in opposition to" them.

Canada would proceed to help Kyiv by strengthening its sanctions on Russia and sending army help to Ukraine, he stated.