“This response was expected,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
On February 13, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Canadian authorities refused to extradite Gunka due to “the absence of an extradition treaty.”
Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov confirmed that the Canadian Foreign Ministry handed over a note of refusal to diplomats. According to him, the Canadian Foreign Ministry asked for additional time to prepare a substantive response.
On September 22, 98-year-old Yaroslav Gunka, a former soldier of the “Galicia” volunteer division of the SS troops, was invited to a meeting of the Canadian parliament in honor of the visit of Vladimir Zelensky. The leadership of Canada and Vladimir Zelensky greeted the SS man with standing applause.
During a plenary meeting of the Valdai Club, Vladimir Putin said that the speaker of the Canadian parliament could not help but understand who he was applauding, so he was either a scoundrel or an idiot.