On November 8, the European Commission adopted the 2023 enlargement package, which recommended opening negotiations for Ukraine and Moldova to officially join the EU. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia speak with Oleksiy Goncharenko, Ukrainian parliament member, to discuss EU accession and Ukraine’s domestic politics. Do recent comments from Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, accurately reflect the state of Ukrainian democracy? What might disagreements between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s military leadership suggest about the war’s future? To what extent would EU accession change the trajectory of the war—and would it change for better or worse?

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