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Seoul to ‘expand scale’ of aid to Ukraine

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee visit the town of Irpin, heavily damaged during a Russian attack, outside of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday. (Photo: South Korean Presidential Office/Yonhap via Reuters)

KYIV: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged on Saturday to “expand the scale” of his country’s humanitarian and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, in his first visit to the war-torn country.

The world’s ninth-largest arms exporter, South Korea has a long-standing policy to not supply lethal weapons to active conflict zones.

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