{"id":1277609,"date":"2025-08-08T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/defense-production-and-ukraines-accession-to-the-eu-zelensky-and-tusk-held-a-conversation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:33:14","slug":"defense-production-and-ukraines-accession-to-the-eu-zelensky-and-tusk-held-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/defense-production-and-ukraines-accession-to-the-eu-zelensky-and-tusk-held-a-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense production and Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the EU: Zelensky and Tusk held a conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/15569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> this on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We managed to discuss a lot: our work for peace, joint defense production, support for Ukrainians, and the negotiation process for Ukraine&#8217;s membership in the European Union,&#8221; the president noted.<\/p>\n<p> Zelenskyy informed Tusk about his conversation with Trump and his European colleagues. Diplomatic opportunities were also discussed.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Ukraine, Poland, and other European nations equally need strong foundations for their security and independence. Everyone needs a reliable peace. And I am grateful for your willingness to help on this path,&#8221; Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p> During the conversation, the politicians also discussed the situation with the negotiation process for Ukraine&#8217;s membership in the EU.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Donald and I agreed that the first negotiation cluster for Ukraine and Moldova should be opened simultaneously. Ukraine and Moldova started this path together and should continue along it in the same way,&#8221; the President of Ukraine noted.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, US President Donald Trump informed European leaders of his <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-khoche-provesty-osobystu-zustrich-z-putinym-i-hotuie-trystoronniy-samit-iz-zelenskym-shcho-vidomo\/\">intention to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week<\/a> , and then to organize a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This could be the first direct dialogue of this format since the start of the full-scale war.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, US President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bulo-dosiahnuto-znachnoho-prohresu-tramp-prokomentuvav-rezultaty-perehovoriv-vitkoffa-ta-putina\/\">Trump announced progress in negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine<\/a> . According to him, his special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Vladimir Putin, after which consultations with European allies began.<\/p>\n<p> The day before, today, August 6,<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/konstruktyvnyy-dialoh-u-kremli-rozpovily-pro-perehovory-putina-i-vitkoffa\/\">US President&#8217;s special representative Steve Witkoff arrived in Russia, where he held talks with Vladimir Putin<\/a> . The Kremlin said that the parties discussed the situation in Ukraine and possible areas of strategic cooperation between Moscow and Washington. The meeting was called &#8220;constructive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk. He reported this on his Telegram channel. &#8220;We managed to discuss a lot: our work for peace, joint defense production, support for Ukrainians, and the negotiation process for Ukraine&#8217;s membership in the European Union,&#8221; the president noted. Zelenskyy informed Tusk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1264862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76885,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1277609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}