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Portuguese FM visits Ukraine on Independence Day

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Portuguese Foreign Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho arrived in Kyiv on Aug. 24. Cravinho wrote on Twitter that he was "honored to be in Kyiv on this day that celebrates the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, which Russia sought and failed to crush." "I bring a message of solidarity, and of political, military, financial, and humanitarian support," he wrote.

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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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