Zelensky assured that he aspires to integrate Ukraine into the European Union within two years

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, declared before a group of international investors his desire to see his country become a full member of the European Union within two years.

In the conversation, collected by the Ukrainian newspaper HvylyaZelensky lamented the prevailing pessimism “among world leaders who believe that Ukraine needs 10 years to become a member of the EU”.

“But for the most part they know us and sometimes even fear our spirit, our energy. Therefore, we see that we can be in the EU in two years, thanks to security guarantees,” according to Zelensky, who also declared himself convinced that Ukraine will join NATO when it has won the “victory over Russia”.

The comments came during a remote meeting with representatives of the world’s largest investment bank, JP Morgan, at an investor summit where they discussed creating a platform. -shape to attract private capital for the purpose of rebuild the country at the end of the war with Russia.

Zelensky also traveled to London, Paris and Brussels this week to command war planes which allow him to defend himself from the Russian air attack.

The British government has started training Ukrainian pilots to fly NATO-standard aircraft, but has made it clear that this is a “long-term” strategy and there are no plans to send fighters in the immediate future. London has promised to speed up the delivery of tanks and long-range missiles to the former Soviet republic.

For his part, the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, acknowledged this Saturday in statements to the BBC that sending F-16s to Ukraine would be “a very serious decision” which “is not easy to take”.

The Polish president, one of kyiv’s closest allies, said sending F-16s would pose a ‘serious problem’ for his country, which doesn’t have ‘enough’ and ‘needs a lot’ more”. In addition, these combat aircraft require “a lot of maintenance”, so it is not just a question of sending them, but that they should be followed up, he says, according to the advanced text.

The President also argued that since Poland is a member of NATO, any decision to supply fighter jets to Ukraine must be “joint”.

Member states of the Atlantic Alliance are questioning whether the supply of fighter-bombers would draw the group directly into conflict or even confrontation with Russia, said the BBC.

With information from EFE and EuropaPress

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