Brussels 27.06.2024 At the margins of the EU Summit Zelensky signed three security agreements days after the EU announced it was opening formal membership negotiations with Kyiv. Among them two bilateral with Estonia, and Lithuania, and one general with the EU “as whole”.

“For the first time, this agreement will enshrine the commitment of all 27 Member States to provide Ukraine with extensive support, regardless of any internal institutional changes,” he said.

Ukraine has already signed 17 similar bilateral security agreements, including with the United States, France, Germany, Britain and Japan.

However they are not mutual defence pacts, as some are attempting to describle them, but conceptual political commitments to support Ukraine with military, financial, humanitarian and diplomatic aid over a number of years.

“Each step we take brings us closer to our historic goal of peace and prosperity in our common European home,” Zelensky said.

Surprisingly entering the Summit Zelensky admitted heavy losses at the battlefields. He said that he is not willing to continue this attrition warfare endlessly, he said to journalists that he intends to organise one more peace summit.

Ukraine and partners should prepare an action plan regarding the points of the Peace Formula within a few months to stop the Russian aggression, Zelensky said.