Source: Radio New Zealand
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he will take part because he supported Ukraine’s efforts. RNZ / Marika Khabazi
The prime minister will take part in a Coalition of the Willing meeting this evening, on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The government is providing a further $8 million in assistance to Ukraine, along with further sanctions targeting Russia’s war machine.
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he was taking part because he supported Ukraine’s efforts.
Luxon said Russia was the perpetrator and could stop the war now.
Two days of peace talks in Geneva between Ukraine and Russia last week ended without a breakthrough, with President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing Moscow of stalling US-mediated efforts to end the four-year-old war.
Ukraine also recently made its largest battlefield gains in more than two-and-a-half-years, a new analysis suggested.
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