President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Archive photoMOSCOW, 2 Apr. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message that in negotiations with the head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, he reached «specifics» on the prospects for the former Soviet republic to join the EU.
"We talked about how to speed up Ukraine's accession to the European Union. There are specifics,» Zelensky said.
In addition, according to the head of state, the talks touched upon the supply of weapons to Kiev and the strengthening of anti-Russian sanctions. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 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. As noted in the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Kyiv. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.