Volodimir Zelensky hopes to start negotiations for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union this year

ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenskyexpressed on Saturday the hope that the accession negotiations to the European Union (EU) they can start this yearas he said after meeting the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsolain Lvov.

“Ukraine aspires to complete the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission as soon as possible and begin accession negotiations now to the EU this year,” he wrote after the meeting on his Telegram channel.

Additionally, he thanked Metsola for his “directionin support of Ukraine and theimportant decisionsadopted by the European Parliament, in particular the resolution supporting the decision to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate country for membership.

For her part, the President of the European Parliament sent a message of perseverance from her Twitter account.

“Over the past year, I have learned a lot about Ukraine. But perhaps the most important lesson is that formulated by (Ukrainian poet) Taras Sevchenko: ‘Keep fighting and you are sure to win‘. This is as true when it comes to the search for peace and freedom as it is in life,” he wrote.

Before meeting the Ukrainian president, the conservative politician laid flowers “in the name of Europeans” in a cemetery to honor the victims of the war. “we will remind themhe promised.

Zelensky traveled yesterday to Lviv, western Ukraine, to participate in an international conference on existing mechanisms to prosecute the Russian crime of aggression against Ukraine.

Metsola traveled to the western Ukrainian city after visiting Kyiv on Friday, where he met Ukrainian Rada spokesman Ruslan Stefanchuk and promised that cooperation between the European Parliament and the Ukrainian parliament “will continue to grow stronger”.

In another order, Zelensky met last Friday United States Attorney General Merrick Garland and with senior European judicial officials, to whom he called for Russia to be prosecuted internationally for war crimes.

The meetings took place in the western Ukrainian city of Lvivhundreds of kilometers from the war front.

“We are doing everything we can to ensure that the International Penal Court succeed in punishing Russian war criminals,” Zelensky said.

“The main theme of all these meetings and the meeting of Lviv it is the responsibility,” he added. “The responsibility of Russia and its leaders is personal, for the aggression and terror against our state and our people”.

Zelensky said that so far there have been more than 70,000 Russian war crimes.

“But unfortunately at the moment we don’t know all the crimes,” he said. “Much of our territory is still under occupationand currently we cannot reliably predict how many Russian crimes we will discover after the expulsion of the invaders.

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