“I would like to offer my most sincere apologies for what happened on Friday and for the situation in which the president [ucraniano, Volodymyr] Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation have been placed,” Trudeau said in the Canadian parliament, reacting to the scandal triggered by the episode.
On Friday, MPs from all parties, Trudeau himself, his government and Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, stood to applaud Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran accused of having fought alongside the SS, ignoring the details of your past.
“It was a terrible mistake and a violation of the memory of those who cruelly suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime,” said the Canadian Prime Minister.
This statement comes one day after the resignation of the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Anthony Rota, responsible for the error which earned Yaroslav Hunka applause in the Canadian Parliament.
According to the Canadian Jewish community advocacy group, Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC), Hunka served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, a Nazi military unit whose crimes against humanity during the Holocaust are well documented.
This was the Ukrainian president’s first official visit to Canada since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
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