Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for more support from Brussels, including a clear path to EU membership, during the latest visit of European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, to Kyiv

.Von der Leyen was in the Ukrainian capital to mark Europe Day, which celebrates peace and unity in Europe, but also fell on the same day that Moscow celebrated the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

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Zelensky urged the EU to speed up ammunition deliveries and lift “unacceptable” restrictions on Ukrainian grain exports, and begin talks on Ukraine’s EU accession. He said, “The time has come to remove the artificial political uncertainty in the relations between Ukraine and the EU…The time has come to take a positive decision on the opening of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.”