Anita Anand's appointment as Foreign Affairs minister draws praise from Ukrainian officials

Open this photo in gallery: Anita Anand swears in as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Blair GableBlair Gable/Reuters About three weeks before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Canada's then-defence minister, Anita Anand, was in Kyiv, trying to warn her Ukrainian counterparts that war was coming. At the time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's government was still insisting that the possibility of a full-scale Russian invasion was remote. But Ms. Anand told reporters on Jan. 31, 2022 that "it's generally well-known to be the case…