Zelenskyy is officially invited to EU summit in Brussels

This was announced by Barend Leyts, spokesman of the European Council President Charles Michel. 

“EU Council has invited President Zelenskyy to participate in person in a future summit of the European Council. For security reasons, no further information will be provided,” he wrote on Twitter. 

@eucopresident has invited President @ZelenskyyUa to participate in person in a future summit of the European Council #EUCO

For security reasons, no further information will be provided.

— Barend Leyts (@BarendLeyts) February 6, 2023

Earlier, the Financial Times reported that the EU is preparing to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Brussels summit on February 9.

The publication noted that the President of Ukraine will speak at a special session of the European Parliament. This will be his second visit outside Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.

Zelenskyy’s only foreign visit after Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022 was a trip to Washington in December, where he held talks with US President Joe Biden and spoke at a joint session of the houses of Congress.

The FT notes that Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the EU summit is still under question due to security concerns.

"Frankly speaking, it is very risky for me to travel. It's true," Zelenskyy said on February 3 answering a question about a possible visit to Brussels.

• On February 3, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv's intentions to start negotiations on joining the European Union as soon as possible were recorded in the joint statement of the Ukraine-EU summit for the first time.