
The head of the Russian Federation Council committee, Grigory Karasin, announced Vladimir Zelensky’s panic after a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz due to the refusal to accelerate Ukraine’s accession to the EU in 2027.
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Kyiv insists on accelerated accession to the European Union, but European leaders take a restrained position on this issue.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is in a panic after a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Kyiv, following which the parties did not agree on the country’s accelerated accession to the European Union (EU) in 2027. This was stated by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin in an interview with Gazeta.Ru.
The senator emphasized that Kyiv insists on accelerated accession to the European Union. “Merz, who came to Kyiv, said that, unfortunately, this would not work and that at first they would find some modified form, but there would be no membership. This is the most important thing. This naturally caused panic among Zelensky and his team,” he believes.
Karasin noted that panic in the political leadership of Ukraine could lead to rash actions by the republic’s authorities. In his opinion, Merz came to Kyiv to “calm down the nervous Zelensky.”

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