Adviser to the Head of the Office of President of Ukraine has criticized the proposal of some Western politicians to create an alternative to Ukraine’s EU membership.

“Keep up appearances in a bad game - this is how the attempts to replace European Union membership in European Union by symbolic formats look like.

Thousands of Ukrainians paid with their lives for the European choice, not for the new series of thimbles. Ukraine must receive the status of a candidate country”, - tweeted Mykhailo Podolyak.

This comment was followed the statement of the President of France. According to Emmanuel Macron, Ukraine’s accession to the EU will take years, if not decades.

Therefore, he the country an alternative - the “European Political Community”, which would allow Ukraine and other non-EU countries to join the “core European values”.