European Union leaders plan to assess Ukraine’s membership to EU in June as war continues

In a major development, it has come to light that European Union leers are planning to assess Ukraine's membership next month, reported Guardian. French Foreign Ministry anunced that Ukraine's application to become an EU member was being examined by European Commission and would be "discussed at he of state and government level at European Council in month of June," said spokesperson for ministry.

Meanwhile, Russia's deputy ambassor to UN said that Ukraine joining European Union would be considered same as joining NATO in Kremlin's eyes. Earlier, Moscow h signaled that Ukraine may join EU as it is mainly a political and ecomic body, but stressed severe consequences if Kyiv applied for NATO membership. Later, Russia's deputy ambassor to UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, in an interview, stated that Russia longer sees much difference between NATO and EU.

"Our position on European Union w is more similar to NATO because we don't see a big difference," Polyanskiy, Russia's deputy permanent representative to UN, said in an interview with British news outlet UnHerd, reported Newsweek.

Earlier on Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that Ukraine should become a full member of European Union and that re could be shortcut to membership. At a joint news conference held in Kyiv, Baerbock mentioned that Germany would reduce its imports of Russian energy to zero, "and that will stay that way forever."

EU proposes streamlined export plan for agricultural goods stuck in Ukraine

In a bid to dress threat to global food security, European Union on Thursday proposed establishing "solidarity lanes" for exporting agricultural goods from Ukraine. Through this move, EU plans to integrate Ukrainian and EU infrastructure to mobilize 20 million metric tonnes of grain struck in war-hit country. commission, in a news release, said that "thousands" of trucks and wagons are still standing on Ukrainian side of many EU borders. Meanwhile, EU has also urged national authorities to apply "maximum flexibility to accelerate procedures at border crossing points" and work to secure more capacity for temporarily storing Ukrainian exports. ongoing war has caused a global supply crisis of grains such as wheat and corn.