Now Ukraine and Stefanishyna have a real shot — if the country can survive.
BRUSSELS — No one thought Ukraine would get this close, this fast, to securing a free, democratic future as a member of the European Union — not even Olha Stefanishyna, the 38-year-old deputy prime minister whose job is to make that dream come true.
more than 20 hours to get from the Ukrainian capital, where there are no operating airports because of the constant threat of missile strikes, to the E.U. capital, which is very much at peace. For Ukraine, success will require overcoming opposition from overtly Russia-friendly leaders and also isolationists who think the E.U. club is big enough. It will also mean living to fight, and negotiate, another day — while asking the same countries that must decide on membership to also pay for ammunition and weapons and host war refugees.
In the following weeks, Russia invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, then fomented war in the eastern Donbas region. What Stefanishyna takes from Yanukovych’s decision and its violent aftermath is a lesson in Ukrainian resolve and Russian miscalculation.*** Four days later, on Feb. 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the E.U. for a fast-track to membership — a request many European diplomatsAdvertisement
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