Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has found hero status in Europe for resisting the Russian invasion, said that he was working the phones to drum up support for EU membership. Ministers on Tuesday were united in granting candidate status to Ukraine as well as Moldova before a formal greenlight later this week, said France's Europe minister, Clement Beaune, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency.

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