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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is ruling out Western military intervention to force Russia to pull its troops out of Ukraine.

But he’s not ruling out further sanctions, including expelling Russia’s ambassador to Canada.

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“I don’t think there’s anyone talking about western military intervention, none of our friends or allies,” Baird said Sunday in an interview with Global’s West Block.

“What we are doing is working together to say in no uncertain terms that this is completely unacceptable and to condemn [it] in the strongest language possible.”

Baird’s own language was harsh. He called the invasion of Russian troops “old Soviet-style” aggression and dismissed Russian arguments that it needs to protect its Black Sea naval fleet, which is based in Sevastopol on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, and the Russian-speaking population in that region.

“There is absolutely no justification whatsoever,” Baird said.