Zelenskyy: Ukraine ‘confidently moving toward’ EU membership after European Commission progress report

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his state is making cardinal advancement toward becoming a subordinate authorities of the European Union (EU).

"The European Commission’s Enlargement Package Report confirms: Ukraine is confidently moving toward EU rank and acceptable to unfastened Clusters 1, 2, and 6," Zelenskyy wrote Tuesday connected X.

"This is the champion appraisal to date—proof that adjacent arsenic we support against Russia’s full-scale aggression, Ukraine continues to betterment and alteration according to European standards."

Ukraine has been an EU campaigner state since it applied for rank successful February 2022, days aft Russia’s penetration began.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a property league astatine an EU Summit successful Brussels, Belgium, connected Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

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The European Commission released its 2025 Enlargement Package Report Tuesday, providing a presumption update connected the advancement of Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Turkey and Georgia successful gathering the conditions for EU membership.

The committee praised Ukraine for showing "remarkable resilience" successful the look of Russia's penetration and a "strong commitment" to its EU accession path, but noted concerns astir the state "ensuring a robust and autarkic anti-corruption framework."

Zelenskyy signed a arguable measure into instrumentality successful precocious July that critics said would undermine the independency of Ukraine’s cardinal anti-corruption agencies, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. Following nationalist protests crossed Ukraine and planetary pressure, helium signed a caller instrumentality connected July 31 reversing the changes.

The committee called connected Ukraine successful its study to sphere the independency of anti-corruption institutions and to grow the jurisdiction of NABU.

Ukrainian MPs ballot for a measure stripping anti-corruption institutions of their independency connected July 22, 2025, successful Kyiv, Ukraine. Parliament moved to curtail the autonomy of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. (Andrii Nesterenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

"Ukraine has adopted roadmaps connected the regularisation of law, nationalist administration, and the functioning of antiauthoritarian institutions, arsenic good arsenic an enactment program connected nationalist minorities, which the Commission assessed positively. Ukraine has met the conditions required to unfastened clusters: 1 (fundamentals), six (external relations), and 2 (internal market)," work a property merchandise from the European Commission.

"The Commission expects Ukraine to conscionable the conditions to unfastened the remaining 3 clusters and works to guarantee that the Council is successful a presumption to instrumentality guardant the opening of each clusters earlier the extremity of the year."

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It added that the Ukrainian authorities has signaled its nonsubjective to provisionally adjacent accession negotiations by the extremity of 2028.

"The Commission is committed to enactment this ambitious nonsubjective but considers that, to conscionable it an acceleration of the gait of reforms is required, notably with regards to the fundamentals, successful peculiar regularisation of law," the property merchandise continued.

Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s premier minister, wrote connected X that the study showed the country’s champion effect successful 3 years.

"The people toward EU rank remains among the apical priorities of our President, Parliament, and Government," she said.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has blocked Ukraine’s EU accession progress, told reporters successful October that he’s projected a "strategical agreement" with Kyiv alternatively of advancing talks toward afloat EU membership.

"Membership is excessively much," Orbán explained. "We request [a] strategical statement only."