Ukraine has the "ambitious goal" to open five or six EU accession negotiation clusters in 2025, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan. 15. Ukraine applied for EU membership at the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
The British prime minister’s visit to Kyiv, his first since taking office in July, caps a week of hurried diplomatic activity by Ukraine’s NATO allies, keen to prove their commitment as uncertainty hangs over the incoming Trump administration.
Poland will facilitate the opening of the first cluster for talks on Ukraine's accession to the European Union, as well as several others if possible. Source: a joint statement signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on 15 January,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Poland after the two countries reached an agreement on a longstanding source of tensions between them: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era massacres by Ukrainian nationalists.
Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine's army is larger than Russia's, but will it be enough to sustain the war effort as fighting escalates?
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha believes that the simultaneous accession of Ukraine and Moldova to the European Union is a national interest. Source: Sybiha in an interview with European Pravda Details: Sybiha was answering questions about Ukraine and Moldova's simultaneous accession to the EU.
British wartime leader Winston Churchill once said he was an optimist, as there was no point being anything else. The year ahead in Ukraine has given rise to wild, perhaps wilful, positivity from Kyiv and – publicly at least – in parts of NATO that the incoming Trump White House can effect meaningful,
Peace in Ukraine must be achieved on Kyiv's terms, therefore it is necessary to strengthen Ukraine's defense capabilities. — Ukrinform.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells reporters that "the sooner Ukraine is in the EU, the sooner Ukraine becomes a member of NATO... the sooner the whole of Europe will get the geopolitical certainty it needs" after meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw.
Poland's Prime Minister has vowed to prioritize Ukraine's path to European Union membership during his country's upcoming presidency of the bloc.
Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its neighbour's progress towards the European Union in talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy which also covered arms supplies.