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The European Commission had previously laid out a number of prerequisites before accession talks could begin Kiev has fulfilled every requirement the EU has set out for it, and is ready to begin accession talks, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated in a video address on Sunday, demanding that the bloc now follows through.

Britain has ruled out a “full-blown military deployment,” the PM’s spokesman said London has no plans of sending its troops to fight Russia alongside Ukrainian soldiers, a UK government spokesman told Russia’s TASS news agency on Wednesday.