Representative of Ukraine to the EU claims that the Ukrainian application for EU membership has been accepted

Ukraine’s application for membership in the European Union has been registered, and the procedure for its consideration has begun. This was stated by the representative of Ukraine to the EU on nuclear energy Vsevolod Chentsov.

“I handed Ukraine’s application for membership in the European Union, signed by President Zelensky, to the EU Permanent Representative of France, Philippe Leglis-Cost, which dominates the EU Council. The application has been registered. The review procedure has begun,” Chernov announced on Twitter.

Recall, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an emergency appeal to the Russians and announced a special military operation in the Donbass. In his speech, he stated that “circumstances require decisive action from Russia” and stressed that “Russia will not allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons.”

In response to Russia’s actions, Western countries (USA, Canada, European Union, Great Britain, Japan) announced new, tougher sanctions against the Russian Federation, including financial and economic ones.

In particular, Russian banks fell under the sanctions, including Sberbank, VTB, Novikombank, FC Otkritie and Sovcombank, and for a number of state-owned companies it was difficult to attract foreign capital.

Later, the EU countries and the United States agreed to disconnect Russian banks that fell under sanctions from the international system of interbank transactions and information exchange SWIFT. In addition, it was decided to freeze the assets of the Bank of Russia, which will create difficulties for its use of international reserves. EU countries also pledged to take steps to limit the sale of citizenship — the so-called “golden passports” that allow wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government to become citizens of EU states and gain access to their financial systems.

You can follow the chronicle of events around Ukraine on March 1 here.