To be fair, Volodmyr Zelensky was only confirming what is already commonly known. But it’s still astonishing to see Ukraine’s president openly admitting that a number of EU member states don’t want his country to join the bloc.
Especially given the political leaders who came to power in Kiev after the 2013-14 Maidan uprising have spent years telling the Ukrainian public that the sacrifices made since then were to make EU accession possible. What’s more, promises of eventual EU membership were behind the original ‘EuroMaidan’ protests themselves.
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