Ukrainian President’s Speech To European Parliament Met With Standing Ovation

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the European Parliament to accept Ukraine’s application to join the European Union in a speech on Tuesday that was met with a standing ovation. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1498646910390972422 More from CNN:

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Tuesday calling on the European Union institutions “to work towards granting” Ukraine the status of EU candidate country, it said in a statement.

The resolution, which also demanded the EU to impose “tougher sanctions” on Russia, was voted in favor by 637 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). It condemned “in the strongest possible terms Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and demands that the Kremlin end all military activities in the country.”

The members also stressed that the EU’s financial sanctions against Russia should go further, stating that “all Russian banks should be blocked from the European financial system and Russia should be banned from the SWIFT system.”

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