“Courageously, Ukraine is fighting for the ideals of Europe that we celebrate today,” the European Commission’s president said. Ukraine is on the “frontline of everything we Europeans cherish”, Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, as she claimed Russia was troubled by Ukraine joining the EU, reports Joe Barnes. The installation also included large mock-ups of bombed buildings and the names of Ukrainian cities where Russia has carried out atrocities against Ukrainians: Bucha, Irpin, Kherson, Bakhmut. With his path blocked, Mr Andreev instead left a wreath of red carnations in front of the hundreds of Ukrainian flags fluttering in the wind as loudspeakers blasted the sounds of bombs and air sirens. Protesters, mostly Ukrainians but also Poles, blocked Ambassador Sergey Andreev's passage to the memorial, which is set amid graves of Red Army soldiers. The installation included hundreds of fluttering blue and yellow Ukrainian flags and crosses serving as symbolic grave markers for Ukrainians killed by Russians during the full-scale war launched by Moscow last year.Ī pool of fake blood below the crosses underlined the message of the protest, which was created by Euromaidan-Warszawa, a citizens' initiative that supports Ukraine. Moscow’s ambassador to Poland was confronted with a large installation representing Russian atrocities in Ukraine when he tried to place a wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers on Russia's Victory Day holiday, reports James Crisp, The Telegraph's Europe Editor. Therefore, we will jointly set up a coordination platform." “This requires very close cooperation of the different stakeholders. “The immediate priority now is that the grain transit goes seamlessly and at the lowest possible cost outside from Ukraine towards the European Union," she told Mr Zelensky. Mrs von der Leyen described the situation as “difficult”, but vowed to assist Ukraine in exporting its agricultural products. The Eastern European nations’ leaders had complained cheap Ukrainian imports were undercutting farmers producing the same grains domestically. His rant came after Brussels signed off on allowing Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania to ban imports of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seed from Ukraine. He added: "We are waiting for the EU to stop all restrictions as fast as possible.” They only reinforce the abilities of the aggressor.” “All restrictions on our exports are completely unacceptable right now. “Protectionist measures from our neighbours cannot but disappoint, softly speaking,” Mr Zelensky told a news conference in Kyiv. The Ukrainian president said the embargo only helps Russia as it wages an illegal invasion of his country after talks with European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen. And we will prevail! It will be the Day of our victory.Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday hit out at a “cruel” European Union export ban on Ukrainian grains to five member states, reports Joe Barnes.
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And just as then we relied on the joint strength of free nations, so now we fight against evil together with the free world, together with free Europe. Although now it is another aggressor, the goal is the same - enslavement or destruction.
As then we destroyed evil together, so now we are destroying a similar evil together," Zelenskyy said. “We will not allow lies as if the victory in that war could have taken place without the participation of any country or nation. The Ukrainian president also compared the current war to the allied efforts to defeat the Nazis. He signed and submitted a draft law to the Ukrainian Parliament that moves the holiday to May 8, which is the date when the rest of the Western allies mark the World War II victory over the Nazis. On Monday, Zelenskyy announced that he was moving the date of Ukraine's own Victory Day celebration and renaming it Europe Day. Dmitry Astakhov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
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