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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrived in Kyiv on Feb. 3 as Russia launched a large-scale strike on Ukraine overnight.

Rutte and President Volodymyr Zelensky placed memorial candles and paid tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers at a memorial on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, according to the President’s Office.

Rutte also spoke at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament.

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