The European Parliament supported a resolution with a recommendation to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership. At the same time, President Volodymyr Zelensky called on democratic countries to support Ukraine not only in words but also in deeds..

“We need to move to actions other than words, that Ukraine should be part of the European family. In the coming weeks and days, the European Union can take a historic step that will prove that the words about the belonging of the people of Ukraine to the European family are not just words and not empty words,” he said on Friday, speaking via video link at the Copenhagen Summit for Democracy.

“Why are there still politicians who are skeptical or hesitant about whether Ukraine should be allowed to join the European Union Why? Why the Ukrainian people have been told for so long that they should still remain in this gray zone between the EU and Russia. Why? If Russia cynically violates literally all the key documents of international law, then why are there still those who hesitate to block any relations with such a state "

Ukraine needs effective, legally binding security guarantees and an updated security architecture for the European continent.

“When it becomes clear that war can start at any moment, the aggressor must feel the horror of the democratic world, the force of international law, as soon as it turns out that this aggressor is only trying to violate existing basic norms,” he added..

Zelensky stressed that all war criminals must be held accountable.

“Justice must have its say, and the word of justice must once again be reinforced by actions for every death in Ukraine from Russian soldiers, for every torture and rape,” he said..

Russia violated over 400 international treaties and agreements with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Among them, he named the UN Charter, the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, the UN Convention on the Prevention of Punishment for the Crime of Genocide, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of.

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“Democracy must be effective in every sense. Words must work. They must act. And when that happens, there will be no question of who will win,” the president said..

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Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna said that there are three EU countries that do not support granting Ukraine the status of an accession candidate. According to Bloomberg, we are talking about Denmark and the Netherlands.

Prior to this, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Ukraine would not accept any surrogate versions or alternatives to the status of a candidate for EU membership..