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EU leaders back Ukraine membership bid in trip to war-torn Kyiv
French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian premier Mario Draghi arrived in Ukraine by train and headed to the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, scene of fierce battles early in the brutal war.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and French Fresident Emmanuel Macron embrace after giving a press conference in at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, on June 16, 2022. The leaders of major EU powers France, Germany and Italy vowed on June 16 to help Ukraine defeat Russia and to rebuild its shattered cities, in a visit to a war-torn Kyiv suburb. (AFP/Ludovic Marin)
The European Union's most powerful leaders on Thursday embraced Ukraine's bid to be accepted as a candidate for EU membership, in a potent symbol of support in Kyiv's battle against Russia's invasion.
French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian premier Mario Draghi arrived in Ukraine by train and headed to the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, scene of fierce battles early in the brutal war.
Later joined in Kyiv by Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, they met their Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been lobbying his western allies for more and faster weapons deliveries and the promise of a European future.
"All four of us support the status of immediate candidate for accession," Macron told a joint press conference with his EU colleagues.
Draghi agreed: "The most important message of our visit is that Italy wants Ukraine in the EU."
Scholz said Ukraine "belongs in the European family" and vowed: "We are supporting Ukraine with the deliveries of weapons. We will keep doing that for as long as it is needed."
Zelensky promised Ukraine was ready to put in the work to become a fully-fledged EU member, and said Ukrainians has already proved themselves worthy of candidate status.
"Ukraine has gotten the closest to EU it has ever been in the history of its independence," he said later in his daily address.
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