Georgian President Salome ZurabishviliMOSCOW, Mar 2Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili believes that the EU needs to speed up steps towards admitting the country to the union. As Zurabishvili said in an interview with the British newspaper Financial Times, the events in Ukraine have created a «window of opportunity» for the EU to accept neighboring countries that seek to become part of the union. 
Kyiv quarreled with Georgia over anti-Russian sanctions»We do not need to make (RF) think that there are weaknesses that no one is defending … (EU) must find a way to respond to our long wait. Let us feel that we are part of a family,” said the President of Georgia. Zurabishvili welcomed the emergence of a “strong Europe” against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine, but noted that the EU could not show the same determination after the conflict in Georgia in 2008. “We have waited as long as and Ukraine… We are on the same path, we must be reckoned with… We must not be forgotten,» she added. become members of the EU. At the same time, Georgia is just preparing to submit an official application for EU membership, and Vladimir Zelensky on February 28 signed an application for Ukraine's accession to the European Union. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. .jpg» />Georgia explained the refusal to join the sanctions against Russia
