It is reported that 90% of Ukrainians said they would be willing to live with electricity shortages for two to three years if they could see the possibility of joining the EU.
European Union. More than 90 percent of Ukrainians are willing to live for years without electricity or heating if they see the possibility of EU membership, said Elena Zelenskaya, wife of the Ukrainian president.
He cited a recent survey in which 90% of Ukrainians said they were willing to live with electricity shortages for two to three years if they considered joining the European Union. You know, it's easy to run a marathon when you know how many kilometers it is," he told the BBC, according to excerpts of his forthcoming interview published on Friday.
Zelenskaya did not specify who conducted the survey or how many people took part. An air alert was declared across Ukraine on Wednesday and lasted for more than two hours.
There were reports of explosions and damage to infrastructure in Kyiv. , Lviv, Kharkov, Odessa, Dnieper, Nikolayev and other cities. The vast majority of Ukrainian residents were left without electricity. The three Kyiv-controlled nuclear power plants in Khmelnitsky, southern Ukraine and Rovne were urgently disconnected from the power grid in.
The outages also affected most thermal and hydroelectric power plants, while some power grid assets were damaged. On February 28, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed Ukraine's application for membership of the European Union.
EU leaders approved candidate status for Ukraine and Moldova for EU membership at a summit in Brussels on June 23. Countries must meet a number of conditions, including reforms to open accession negotiations, carry out corruption, de-oligarization and a range of other reforms.
The process of negotiating the terms of a country's admission to the Community can take forever, and candidate status does not guarantee EU membership. On November 21, Zelenskyi again called on Western countries to admit Ukraine into NATO. and the EU.
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