Long-reads

Ukraine will not comply with such absurd recommendations from the Venice Commission, no matter what is at stake. However, this decision will be used to hinder Ukraine's progress toward EU membership...

We should not be naïve about Russia’s influence on Swiss politics. As the financial argument of the denial is hence quite weak – or naïve or egoist.

It turns out that Tbilisi's assurances of respect for Ukraine's territorial integrity are worth nothing. They are willing to allow an airline operating in occupied Crimea.

Did Ukraine build a European-style prosecutor's office? Well, no, it only created all the needed conditions. Since the times of Yanukovych though, the prosecutor's office has definitely become more effective.

Why did the Polish government impose restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural exports? What consequences will this ban have?

"European Pravda" explains who will be entitled to a share of Russian money and how the new mechanism, which is a victory for Ukraine and its citizens, will work."

Ukraine is getting closer to timely fulfilling the seven criteria, or the requirements, obtained with EU candidate status.

The EU does not realise that it gives "permission" to manipulate emotions for political purposes. The Venice Commission is again prepared to soften their position...

Why does the European Commission propose to impose restrictions against Ukrainian exports, although it had previously criticised similar decisions? How can Ukraine get out of this crisis without harming itself?

We need a new concept of relations with NATO and Ukraine's movement towards membership. Geopolitical reality requires speeding up this process.

Anton Korynevych: "To reach a verdict against Putin while he is sitting in a bunker, we need a trial in absentia. This is real."

How can such assets be searched for? What problems in this matter already exist in the European legislation, which of them can be solved, and which are still pending?

In order not to stand up for "red lines", Russia copied the US nuclear tactics. But Putin did not see how Xi Jinping's authority was reduced to ashes.

The Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Olha Stefanishyna states that the first evaluation of the European Commission regarding Ukraine's progress in fulfilling the "candidate criteria" will be presented in May, and by then, Kyiv will complete the implementation of most of them.

We all want peace. The Ukrainians the most. But peace without freedom and peace without justice is no peace at all...

"When we received instructions during the night of February 23/24 to leave Kyiv, we still had hopes nothing would happen..."

For the European Union and our partners, there is no alternative to staying the course of our ‘triple strategy’ in countering Russia's aggression against Ukraine

Ukraine must be ready for a counteroffensive in the spring since time is gradually starting to play against Kyiv and the West.