Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Trump’s talks with Russia and Ukraine could provide the opening for Ottawa and its peers to put plans into action to secure Kyiv’s future.

“There is an opportunity now to end Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine,” Anand said Tuesday during a press conference near Helsinki.

Anand said Canada and its peers have been talking about “stable security guarantees” for Ukraine since at least the July 2023 summit of the NATO military alliance.

Those talks morphed last fall into the Coalition of the Willing, a group of nations who have offered to help fund or staff a peacekeeping force on Ukrainian territory, including most European nations and others such as Canada, Japan and Australia.

“The work that the Coalition of the Willing is doing now is absolutely fu

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