Micheál Martin: "There are issues that every country applying to join the EU has to benchmark themselves against. The Kachka-Kos 10-point list and plan are there to be engaged with. Zelenskyy doesn't leave much room for people to hide on the question."

Kwaśniewski: "Budanov came to clean up the situation, to facilitate next steps, but that didn’t happen. Ukraine will be a topic in the next elections."

Heiko Thoms: "I don't see the letter by President Zelenskyy as going against the proposal. On the contrary, I find that he, in his own way, expresses support for many elements of Merz’s proposal."

Prime Minister of the Netherlands: "Ukraine’s EU accession is also part of the new geopolitical world order."

Marta Kos: "We are talking about a few months. This is about the future of Europe. The principle is: change or die."

Foreign minister Andrii Sybiha: "Holding the aggressor accountable is an indispensable element of a sustainable, dignified peace for Ukraine."

Michael Gahler: "If there is a ceasefire without everything being under government control, there’s nothing to prevent the negotiation of your accession."

Katarína Mathernová: "Everyone in Transcarpathia said: 'Don’t use the Hungarian minority as the reason for Ukraine not moving forward on the EU path'..."

Anne Applebaum: "If we examine what weapons the US has really sent to Ukraine, with these weapons valued at their real value, the Europeans are sending much more..."

Kęstutis Budrys: "Article 5 is about me committing to you to die for your security because it is my security. This is how intimate it is. This is the most intimate relationship a human being can have."

UK Chief of Defence Staff: "Our commitment is to guarantee you safe skies. This will also include British troops on the ground"...

Ambassador Makeiev: "Germany’s stance on Ukraine in NATO has changed... We've started hearing statements from the country's leadership about German leadership on Ukraine."

"We began to face the biggest blows from neighbouring countries… We adopted a policy of 'unconditional love'."

Andrius Kubilius: "If a truce is established in Ukraine, Russia will quickly stockpile enough weapons to launch a new aggression."

"It could happen that Ukraine will not formally open any chapter in its EU accession negotiations until there are elections in Hungary. But only formally!"

Petr Pavel: "The war will most probably end up with a compromise.... The first part of the guarantees will be an agreement with the United States..."

"We’ve got to a situation where Putin does not need to betray Trump, as he is already getting all he wants. For now, the Russians are in an excellent position"

Alain Berset: "If there is no Court to consider certain crimes, we must create it. Our ambition is to create the tribunal this year."