The European Commission will provide a clear signal next week on Ukraine's EU candidate status bid, its chief Ursula von der Leyen said Saturday, as fighting raged in the east and south of the country.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine on 11 June, 2022.The European Commission will provide a clear signal next week on Ukraine's EU candidate status bid, its chief Ursula von der Leyen said Saturday, as fighting raged in the east and south of the country.
Despite reservations among some member states, EU leaders are expected to approve Ukraine's candidate status at a summit on 23-24 June, though with strict conditions attached.The European Union and the United States have strongly backed Ukraine, sending weapons and cash to help it see off Russian forces, and punishing Moscow with unprecedented economic sanctions.
He warned of "an acute and severe food crisis and famine", adding that the "shortage of foodstuffs will inexorably lead to political chaos" — all of it "the direct consequence of the acts of the Russian state".Also Saturday, Lugansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday cited reports of Russians loading trucks with Ukrainian wheat and taking it to Russian-controlled areas.
They continued in areas around Kharkiv and in the Donbas regions of Lugansk and Donetsk overnight, Mr Zelenskyy's office said, with the regional governor reporting two civilian deaths and 11 injuries Saturday in locations across Donetsk. Later, on television, Mr Gaiday said lightly armed Ukrainian fighters in Severodonetsk were winning street battles, but that Russian artillery would then destroy the buildings those fighters were using for cover — "story by story," he said, adding, "It's hard."In Odessa, a man died after coming into contact with an explosive object while swimming at a beach with his wife and son, the regional Ukrainian command said on Facebook.
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