As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine and residents of the capital city sheltered from missile strikes inside dark subway stations, South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol’s campaign implied that Kyiv is at least partly to blame. 

Ukraine was invaded because it gave up arming itself and was “negligent” about building alliance partners, campaign spokesperson Chang Young-il alleged on Friday, hours after Yoon argued that an end-of-war declaration with North Korea is meaningless if South Korea is not militarily powerful and backed by allies.

“Ukraine, despite its unfortunate history of losing the Crimea to Russia