Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy To Meet With Trudeau in Toronto

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy To Meet With Trudeau in Toronto
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, greets media prior his meeting with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Kiev, Ukraine on May 30, 2019. Efrem Lukatsky/AP, The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—Ukraine’s new president makes his North American debut in Toronto later today—more than a month before he is to visit the United States—and the country’s envoy says that’s no mistake.

Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says that’s an indication of just how important President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sees the ties between the two countries that have grown in the last 28 years.