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Zelensky: 'EU membership path will bring our victory closer.'

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President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the European Commission's recommendation that Ukraine be granted official candidate status to join the EU. "It's the first step on the EU membership path that will certainly bring our victory closer," he wrote on Twitter. All 27 EU member states must approve the final decision to grant the status.

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