The meeting of the European Council is underway in Brussels with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in attendance.
Speaking alongside Zelenskyy as he arrived at the summit, European Council President António Costa hailed "new momentum" in efforts to force Russia to the negotiating table, and a new sense of trans-Atlantic unity after G7 talks in Evian-les-Bains, France.
Leaders are expected to debate the possibility of engaging diplomatically with Russia to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine. Though Moscow continues to stick to its maximalist demands, officials in Brussels are laying the groundwork for direct negotiations.
As he arrived, Zelenskyy also urged the EU to make the most of its new-found consensus on advancing Ukraine's bid to join the EU by opening the remaining five phases of membership talks by the summer. Both Ukraine and Moldova opened the first set of negotiations, known as clusters, on Monday.
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