Olga Stefanishina. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 30Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna stated that Ukraine will receive the status of a candidate member of the European Union in June 2022, the Ukrainian publication Strana.ru reported. ua». «Vice Prime Minister for European Integration Olha Stefanyshina believes that Ukraine will receive the status of a candidate member of the EU already at the next meeting of EU leaders, which is to be held in June 2022,» the message reads on the Telegram channel of the publication. The representative of the European Commission Anna Pisonero announced in April that the EC had begun evaluating Ukraine's responses to the first part of the EU accession questionnaire. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during her visit to Kyiv in April, handed over a questionnaire to Volodymyr Zelensky to start negotiations on EU accession. She stressed that the document being transferred is «the basis for discussions in the coming months.» Later, Zelensky said that he had handed over the completed first part of the questionnaire to the head of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine, Mati Maasikas. He added that Ukraine would soon send the second part of the answers to the EU. On February 28, Zelensky signed an application for Ukraine's accession to the European Union. The next day, the European Parliament supported a resolution granting Ukraine the status of a candidate country. Earlier, the EU Permanent Representatives agreed to instruct the European Commission to prepare an assessment of the applications of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova for EU membership. candidate for membership
