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Netherlands ready to support EU candidate status for Ukraine.

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the European Commission's recommendation a "reasonable compromise," adding that both supporters and opponents of Ukraine's candidacy can agree with this conclusion. The European Commission on June 17 recommended giving Ukraine official candidate status to join the bloc, saying reforms, including anti-corruption, must follow.

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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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