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The prompt visit by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured in October 2020, to Kyiv to discuss financial and weapons assistance to Ukraine will not contribute any effective enhancement to the military deterrent against Russian conquest, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL

January 20, 2022

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s prompt visit to Kyiv, to discuss financial and weapons

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