Canada’s new ambassador to Ukraine had an eerie sense of déjà vu when she reached Kyiv last month.
Natalka Cmoc saw so many locals with missing limbs that it reminded her of working in Ukraine in the 1990s, when the newly independent country had thousands of soldiers returning from the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan.
“Ukraine is really close to my heart, and I want Ukraine to succeed,” Cmoc said in an interview from the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv on Friday.
She arrived in Ukraine’s capital on Aug. 15, starting a one-year term in a country she has lived in multiple times since its 1991
