Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has discussed further assistance to Ukraine with European Council President Charles Michel and said that the crucial moment had come to close the discussion and make the decision on the country’s membership in the EU.
He wrote about this on Twitter, Ukrinform reports.
“It is a crucial moment to close the long-standing discussion once and for all and decide on Ukraine’s membership in the EU. Discussed with European Council President Charles Michel further effective assistance and the heroic struggle of Ukrainians for their free future,” Zelensky said.
Ukrinform reported earlier that the head of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, announced on February 24 the beginning of a “special military operation” in Donbas.
Martial law has been imposed across Ukraine. Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization.
Russians fired Grad rockets on the evacuation column on its way from Shchastia, Luhansk region.
“Almost 80% of Shchastia is destroyed. We are talking to the head of the Military-Civil Administration, I have information that the convoy [of evacuation vehicles] really came under Grad rocket fire. This is an international crime under international humanitarian law, and Russia will pay a high price for it. The evacuation is underway. But talking about the town of Shchastia, it suffers a problem,” Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said on the air of parliament’s Rada TV channel, Ukrinform reports.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that according to military reports, Kherson is controlled by the Ukrainian military, and the situation changes every hour.
“In fact, the situation changes every hour. We only need to know that we are regaining our land, every inch of our land will be Ukrainian,” Vereshchuk stressed.