The Ukrainian government is preparing to launch a new institution that would promote Ukrainian unity abroad and counter Russian influence, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Aug. 19. Speaking at the meeting of Ukraine’s senior diplomats, Zelensky dubbed the new body “the Ministry for Ukrainian Unity and Countering Russian Influence on Ukrainians.” Its focus will be, first of all, on Ukraine’s citizens living outside the country. Even before the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian diaspora has been widespread around the world, with particularly large communities in the EU, the U.S., and Canada…