It is a crucial moment for us to end the long-standing debate once and for all, said the President of Ukraine.
KIEV. In connection with the Russian attack on Ukraine, the Ukrainian president is asking Volodymyr Zelensky your country’s accession to the European Union. The DPA informs about it.
“It is a crucial moment for us to end the long-standing debate once and for all and decide on Ukraine’s membership in the EU,” Zelenskyj said in a statement on Saturday.
In his own words, he spoke with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, about “further effective aid” as well as “the heroic struggle of the Ukrainians for their free future”.
Ukraine’s membership in the EU has so far been considered excluded, writes the DPA. According to experts, such a step would, among other things, make the agreement with Russia impossible.
I need ammunition, not transport. Zelensky rejected the US offer of evacuation Read
The issue of rapprochement with the EU provoked mass protests in the center of Kiev at the turn of 2013-2014.
The situation led to the belt of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. Mask subsequently annexed the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula and a separatist conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine.