He said this in an interview with Bild.

“It is clear that Ukraine must meet certain standards,” the politician stressed.

Klingbeil specified that we are talking about the Copenhagen criteria, each of which must be implemented in order for Ukraine to join the EU.

On February 17, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced the need to offer Ukraine an accelerated path to join the European Union.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, spoke about the infinitely distant prospects for Ukraine's membership in the EU.