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Ambassador: Erdogan has leverage to push Putin to follow through on deals.

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Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkey, Vasyl Bodnar, said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a strong influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bodnar said that “not even the European leaders have achieved what Erdogan has achieved,” referring to Russia easing its Black Sea blockade to allow ships with Ukrainian grain pass.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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