Russia-Ukraine: Canada PM Trudeau meets with British PM Boris Johnson in UK

According to a statement released by Canada's Prime Minister's Office, both the leaders "strongly condemned the ongoing military aggression by Russia against the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine, and worked together to identify additional measures to hold all responsible stakeholders accountable."

"The prime ministers discussed the growing international consensus against the Russian aggression, as demonstrated by the recent vote in the United Nations General Assembly, and agreed to expand coordination amongst countries providing military, financial, and humanitarian support to Ukraine," the statement read.

The two leaders also decided to deepen bilateral collaboration with respect to security and intelligence in order to better combat threats to democracy, including foreign interference, economic coercion, disinformation, and cyber-attacks.

"Justin Trudeau and Boris Johnson spoke about close and effective cooperation between Canada and the United Kingdom in multilateral fora, including within the Media Freedom Coalition, G7, and Five Eyes on countering disinformation and foreign interference and strengthening democracies globally," Canada PMO said in the statement.

Trudeau's office said the two leaders discussed next steps for the modernization of the free trade agreement between Canada and the UK, and dedicated additional attention to securing reliable supply chains, especially for energy and critical minerals.

Meanwhile, the British PMO, in a separate statement, said both the leaders have agreed that last week’s vote where nearly three quarters of the entire membership of the United Nations condemned Putin’s war was a significant historical milestone.

During the meeting, the UK Prime Minister said the international community needed to use this momentum to pull together a broad coalition of practical and sustained support for Ukraine.

Besides agreeing to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Canada and the UK across security, defence, trade, science, global travel, health and climate sectors, the pair decided they would continue to be robust on sanctions to isolate Russia’s economy.

(Reporting by Suman Das)