After two years of detailed, sympathetic media coverage of Ukraine's "Revolution of Dignity" and its subsequent efforts to leave the Russian orbit and reform the economy along European lines, only about 12 percent of Dutch voters turned out to support the fledgling pro-European democracy. It would be convenient to say the Dutch don't really know or care about Ukraine, but it would also be untrue. The July 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, most likely by pro-Russian rebels, took 193 Dutch lives. It's one of the biggest such tragedies in the country's modern history, and it has made Dutch society quite aware of Ukraine and what's going on there today.
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