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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has announced $200,000 in medical aid for Ukrainians hurt in this month's political violence as he leads a delegation of Conservative MPs and Ukrainian-Canadian community leaders in Kyiv.

Baird is scheduled to meet with new Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov. He met Friday with Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister.

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