Canada summons the Russian ambassador to protest the attacks in Ukraine and Lavrov's statements

The representative of Russia denies that he was summoned by the words of the Foreign Minister

The Canadian Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly, reported this Wednesday that she has summoned the Russian ambassador in Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, to protest the recent Russian attacks in Dnipro that left nearly fifty dead, as well as the recent statements by his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.

Joly has indicated that the meeting is to "make it clear that we do not accept the sheer brutality of Russia's recent attacks against civilians in Dnipro and to condemn face to face the anti-Semitic comments made by Lavrov," as reported by 'Ottawa Citizen'.

Lavrov had claimed hours earlier that the United States had organized a "coalition" with Western countries to "resolve the Russian question" in a similar way to Adolf Hitler's "final solution" to exterminate the Jews.

"Just as Napoleon mobilized almost all of Europe against the Russian Empire, and just as Hitler mobilized and captured and armed most European countries against the Soviet Union, the United States has organized a coalition with almost all European countries, not just NATO members, for a war against our country through Ukraine," he said.

After that, the Canadian Foreign Minister has insisted that "Lavrov's comments, after previous anti-Semitic comments, are a total lack of respect for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust."

"Let's be very clear: the Russian regime is the aggressor, not the victim," Joly remarked, arguing that Canada "will always continue to counter hate and those who manipulate the truth," according to his profile on the social network Twitter. .

The Russian Embassy in Canada has responded to Joly, recalling that Canada and Russia were allies during World War II, with the role of the then Soviet Union as a "decisive force to save Europe from Nazism and put an end to genocide."

Stepanov has assured that the Canadian Foreign Ministry has only summoned him to discuss the issue of the tragedy in Dnipro, denying Joly's statements, which he assured that he also wanted to criticize the recent intervention of his Russian counterpart.

"I saw this statement from Joly after the meeting, and I was a bit surprised, because of the invitation from Foreign Affairs, it was for the Canadian side to ask me about the Dnipro tragedy," said the diplomat.

"It was exclusively about that, and you can imagine that it followed the predictable lines of general Western propaganda," he criticized, as reported by the TASS news agency.

According to the ambassador, Joly's actions respond to the fact that "it is not diplomatic, but political", at the same time that he has branded her as "pro-Ukrainian and hyper-anti-Russian".

"Western countries, with their confrontational policy, worsen any chance of achieving diplomatic results after the end of our military operation," he opined.