Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hoped to use his Oct. 6 summit with European Union leaders in Brussels to demonstrate his continued commitment to the reform agenda underpinning Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration. However, events in Kyiv on the eve of the summit will only have served to amplify concerns over the country’s direction under Zelensky, as was evident in an anodyne joint summit statement highlighting “the importance of accelerating and reinforcing reform efforts.”
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The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wears a face mask as he gives a press conference with his Slovak counterpart (not in picture) at the Presidential palace in Bratislava on Sept. 24, 2020, during his two-day official visit in Slovakia.
