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the allegations. hes been granted bail and is due to appear in court again next month. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. for once, the headlines coming out of ukraine have been dominated by diplomacy rather than the latest from the war front. the leaders of the eus three biggest countries staged a visit to kyiv on the eve of a key brussels decision — will ukraine be given official eu candidate status? for the zelensky government, it would be a symboli...

and economic assistance still urgently required. well, my guest is one of ukraines deputy prime ministers, olha stefanishyna. is ukraine getting the backing it needs? deputy pm olha stefanishyna, in kyiv — welcome to hardtalk. hello, stephen. thank you very much forjoining us. now, over the last few hours, you have been heavily involved in hosting the leaders of france, germany and italy in kyiv. the meeting, as we speak, is still ongoing. does the fact of this visit give you hope th...

Which are desperate to join the european union and they dont believe in queuejumping. they also dont believe in offering accession to countries which have a war on their territory — and they also dont believe in offering accession to countries which dont meet basic standards of governance, including tackling corruption. you cant get around those eu rules and conditions, and at the moment you dont meet any of them. yes, of course, it would be naive to think that we operate only with argument re...