“It is a crucial moment to end the long-standing discussion once and for all and to decide on Ukraine’s membership in the #EU,” Zelenskyy tweeted on Saturday. He spoke with EU Council President Charles Michel about “further effective aid” and the “heroic fight of the Ukrainians for their free future”.
Ukraine’s membership of the European Union has so far been considered impossible. According to experts, such a step would also make an agreement with Russia impossible.
The question of Ukraine’s rapprochement with the EU triggered the mass protests on Kiev’s central Maidan square. They led to the fall of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. As a result, Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, and war with pro-Russian separatists broke out in eastern Ukraine.
Source: Nachrichten
