Newsinc24 Team 
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday to grant European Union candidate status to embattled Ukraine, pushing it one step closer to Western allies who have been supplying it with massive amounts of armaments to help it fight off Russia’s four-month-old invasion. The vote was 529-45, with 14 abstentions. The European Parliament also approved EU candidacy for Georgia and Moldova. French President Emmanuel Macron said that the decision by EU leaders sent a "very strong signal" to Russia that Europeans support the pro-Western aspirations of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Twitter that this was a “historic moment in Ukraine-EU relations. … Ukraine’s future is within the EU.”
Zelensky on Ukraine's EU candidate status: "It's a victory. Now, we will defeat the enemy, rebuild Ukraine, become a EU member state, and then – we will finally rest." pic.twitter.com/W9O4VJew2T
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 23, 2022
Ukrainian Parliament chair Ruslan Stefanchuk thanked the European lawmakers for their support in a Facebook message, saying, “Ukraine is EU country. And we fight for this right not only on the battlefield but also in the legal sphere.”Ukraine and Moldova will have to go through protracted negotiations and the European Union has laid out steps that Kyiv must take even before that, including bolstering the rule of law and fighting corruption.
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