Albanese government and opposition leader downplay prospect of sending troops to join ‘coalition of the willing’ peacekeeping force
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Peter Dutton said he was “disappointed” by Donald Trump’s treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office and said he would lobby the US president to change his view on Ukraine, if the Coalition won the coming federal election.
The opposition leader praised Zelenskyy as a “modern-day hero”, and cautioned that Europe “can’t continue to rely for financial support or military support from the United States”.
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