New Zealand is sending 30 troops to Britain to train Ukrainian soldiers in how to use a type of howitzer over the next couple of months.
About 230 Ukraine soldiers will be trained.
The gesture may put this country closer to the Easter European conflict, but it won't be causing any sparks to fly between the country's two major parties.
Unlike, perhaps, the government's hailing of President Biden's long-awaited Indo-Pacific plan.
We spoke to National's foreign affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee.
24 May 2022
