OTTAWA — Canada is restricting the finances of another 129 people, companies and organizations over Russia’s treatment of Ukraine.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the additional sanctions today, calling the measures a response to the ongoing occupation of Crimea and the Russian arrests of Ukrainian sailors in the Black Sea last November.
Those arrests came in a naval confrontation in the Kerch Strait, an import marine link for southern Ukraine that runs past the Crimean Peninsula. The Russians planted a freighter across the narrow strait, asserted it was Russian territorial water and seized two Ukrainian gunboats and a tug. They took …read more
Source: National Newswatch
