Petrov, Roman2025-10-022025-10-022024Petrov R. EU Solidarity in Time of War in Ukraine / Roman Petrov // Solidarität in Europa: Europäische Solidarität : Akten zur 3. Saarbrücker Europa-Konferenz / P. Oster, T. Giegerich, F. Weber, K. Höfer. - Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2024. - S. 151-163. - (Saarbrücker Beiträge Zur Europaforschung Series ; vol. 4).978-3-7560-1639-6https://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/36987Ukraine’s formal application for EU membership on 28 February 2022 was made in tragic circumstances. It came as a surprise to many that President Zelenskyy and his government could even think about EU membership while the Russian army was invading the country on a scale comparable to that of ‘Operation Barbarossa’ by Nazi Germany in 1941. And yet the formal application to the EU was signed just a few days after that unprovoked invasion, while Russian troops were only about 15 kilometres from President Zelenskyy’s office in Kyiv. The long cherished dream of the Ukrainian nation to engage formally in negotiations for EU membership suddenly became reality in one of the most critical and fatal moments of the country’s history.enPresident ZelenskyyUkrainian nationUkraineconference materialsConference materials