European leaders were in Kyiv, Ukraine today to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky “in a show of support to Ukraine amid its battle to fen off Russia’s invasion:
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi visited Kyiv on Thursday in a show of support to Ukraine amid its battle to fend off Russia’s invasion.https://t.co/x1g9AIYmab
— VOA DEEWA (@voadeewa) June 16, 2022
The leaders toured the city of Irpin earlier in the day:
⚡️Zelensky meets German, French, Italian, Romanian leaders in Kyiv.
Zelensky's meeting with Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, Mario Draghi, and Klaus Iohannis started after the four visited Irpin, a town that had been devastated by Russia’s war, on June 16.
📷President's Office pic.twitter.com/nVsh0CVJfT
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 16, 2022
They reportedly told Zelensky that their countries supported “immediately granting EU candidate status to Ukraine”:
⚡️Macron: France, Germany, Italy, Romania in favor of immediately granting EU candidate status to Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron made the statement during his June 16 visit to Kyiv with other European leaders.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 16, 2022
And then this happened with Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron:
More classic Macron PDA pic.twitter.com/wEnFQaUO21
— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) June 16, 2022
What Macron did to Zelensky is literally what Pepé Le Pew does to that cat, right?
Yeah, Zelensky doesn’t look happy?
Macron, Scholz and Draghi back Ukraine’s bid to join EU during trip to Kyiv https://t.co/9PZummO3yr
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) June 16, 2022
Maybe it’s because “becoming an official candidate in its bid to join the EU” while Europe continues to fund Russia with energy purchases is not quite what Zelensky had in mind from their photo-op?
The leaders of France, Germany and Italy support Ukraine becoming an official candidate in its bid to join the EU, French President Emmanuel Macron tells reporters https://t.co/3yAJ5vngvD
— Bloomberg (@business) June 16, 2022
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