Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and briefly toured a blackened, bombed-out suburban community, APA reports citing UNIAN.

At the same time, he reopened the Canadian Embassy and welcomed the ambassador back to the embattled capital.

The visit came on the same day as Russian missiles pounded the southern port city of Odesa and there was heavy fighting in the eastern part of the country, including around Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine.

Trudeau visited the city of Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, which was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in March as Russian forces attempted to storm the capital.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency