Zelensky said the country has completed all of the necessary steps for EU membership

• Ukraine has completed all of the steps required to become a candidate for EU membership.
• It is now up to the EU member states to express their opinions.

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• President Volodymyr Zelensky declared this in a televised message to the nation.

• For its part, Ukraine has done all, absolutely all the necessary work in this regard.

Ukraine has completed all of the steps required to become a candidate for EU membership. It is now up to the EU member states to express their opinions. President Volodymyr Zelensky declared this in a televised message to the nation.

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“We held a meeting on communication with the European Union and individual member states on our application and acquiring a candidate status. Diplomatic efforts to this end don’t stop for a day. I get briefed daily, including on the preparation of procedural decisions by the European Union. Both the team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our diplomats, and the team of our government in general – all, absolutely all of them are working to ensure that a significant historical decision is made in June, which we all expect. For its part, Ukraine has done all, absolutely all the necessary work in this regard. As they say in such cases: the ball is on the pitch of European bodies, on the field of European nations,” Zelensky stressed.

According to reports, Ukraine might be designated as a candidate for EU membership as early as this month, at the EU leaders’ conference on June 23-24.

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