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Latvian FM: Helping Ukraine is 'insurance'

Killian Bayer
October 22, 2022

"Nobody's pushing Vladimir Putin into a corner but Putin himself," Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics told DW's Killian Bayer. "If we give in to nuclear blackmail, then it will continue."

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