Freezing cold and electricity shortages “are not the worst thing,” she told the BBC Ukrainians are ready to withstand heating and power outages for years if the country is eventually allowed to join the EU, First Lady Elena Zelenskaya has claimed. She was interviewed by the BBC on Friday.

Attempts to agree a deal have stalled as some member states called it “too generous” to Moscow EU leaders failed once again on Friday to reach an agreement on setting a price ceiling for Russian crude oil shipped by sea, sources told Bloomberg.

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