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The Weekly Round-Up: Developments on Ukraine 10

June 24, 2022

The European Union approved formal candidate status for Ukraine, just four months after it applied. While actual negotiations for membership are some way off, the political signal is clear. In a reference to former President Viktor Yanukovych stopping Ukraine from signing an association agreement with the EU, which sparked the Maiden protests and the collapse of his pro-Russian government, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated that the Commission “acknowledges the immense progress that [Ukrainian] democracy has achieved since the Maiden protests of 2014 [.]” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that the decision helps “draw a line under decades of ambiguity and set it in stone: Ukraine is Europe, not part of the ‘Russian world.”

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