Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday told the European Union from the Munich Security Conference that Ukraine "needs a date" for its accession and aims to be ready to join in 2027, in response to a Euronews question.
"We need a date," he said during a press conference. "The date of accession depends on all these talks with partners but, and I don’t want to be disrespectful to the United States and Europe, we need a date because otherwise Russia will try to block us - directly or through maybe other countries."
"Ukraine has to be technically ready to join 2027, my government, the parliament, the institutions."
The other big draw of the day in Munich was US Secretary of State Marco Rubio who said in his eagerly-anticipated speech that Washington wants to "revitalise" its relationship with Europe and that the two blocs should fix what he described as a "broken" status quo together.
But he still stuck to US government lines that the rules-based international order birthed after WWII infringed on sovereignty, and led to mass migration which in turn destabilised Western countries.
Plenty more world leaders took to the stage, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Scroll down below to catch up on what they said.
