Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, has vowed to use Warsaw’s presidency of the European Union to push forward Ukraine’s request to join. 

Different countries take over as president of the EU on a rotating basis, with Poland in charge at present. 

“We will break the standstill we have in this issue,” Tusk said. 

“We will accelerate the accession process.”

Zelenskyy expects US to continue support

On a different topic, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he expected the US would continue
to strengthen Ukraine after Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. 

The Ukrainian leader reiterated that Ukraine was seeking “strong”
security guarantees and urged support to the Ukrainian army as the war approaches its three-year mark.

The two also discussed Ukraine’s production process, and found “common language” on the exhumation of bodies relating to the Volhynia killings that took place from 1943 to 1945, they said at a joint news conference.