'Dictated peace' unacceptable, Ukraine can choose its 'own destiny'. EU Trio backs Zelensky in Kyiv

Описание: Zelensky hailed Thursday
the “historic” joint visit to Ukraine
by the trio of EU leaders
 
The leaders, France’s Macron,
Germany’s Scholz,
and Italy’s Draghi
delivered a pointed and
immediate message to Russia that
EU will not strong arm Kyiv into
any surrender or territorial
compromise to end the
nearly four-month-long conflict
 
Those reassuring words
came as a huge relief to
Ukraine’s Zelensky and
his officials who are
quite suspicious that
Western allies might
try to force
an unjust settlement
 
France, Germany and Italy
have all faced criticism for
continuing to engage with Putin,
and failing to give Kyiv
the amount of weaponry
it says its needs
 
Unlike the another $1bn
weapon packages from US
there’s no major breakthrough
on arming Ukraine
from the European side
 
But the three leaders
have proclaimed their support
for Ukraine
becoming official candidates
for EU membership,
although a more symbolic one
 
Expressing “a message of
European unity
toward Ukrainians”
the three leaders took
a night train to Kyiv
…where they were greeted with
air raid sirens amid
the ongoing fight in E. Ukraine
 
They visited Irpin,
the suburb northwest of Kyiv
where Russian troops
allegedly killed civilians
 
The Kremlin said Thursday that
it hopes the EU leaders
visiting Kyiv
will urge Zelensky to
evaluate the situation
realistically

Editor: Lily

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