Canada’s exclusion from last week’s White House meeting of NATO members and the Ukrainian president was likely behind the prime minister’s surprise visit to Kyiv this week.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday to join President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in celebrating Ukrainian Independence Day. Carney’s war-zone debut underlines Canada’s role in the “coalition of the willing,

During a surprise visit to Kyiv, Prime Minister Mark Carney did not rule out deploying Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a future security guarantee against Russia. Carney attended Independence Day events as a guest of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,