Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 10. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, commenting on the words of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba that Ukraine would not «swallow» a refusal to become a candidate for EU membership, noted that earlier Kyiv «swallowed» such refusals. French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier that the process of Ukraine's accession to the EU could take several years, even decades. />The European Commission received Ukraine's answers to the questionnaire on EU membership»Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba: «If we do not get candidate status, this can only mean one thing — Europe is trying to deceive us. And we won’t swallow it. “Before that, they swallowed it. And it worked out well,” Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel. Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv had submitted to the EU the completed second part of the questionnaire for obtaining the status of a candidate for entry into the European Union and hopes to receive an answer on candidate status for Ukraine in June.
