Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the struggle for the European Union's decision to start membership negotiations with Ukraine will continue until the last minute of the upcoming European Council meeting, which will be held on December 14-15 in Brussels.

He told reporters about this on Monday in Brussels after attending a meeting of the EU Council on Foreign Affairs, in which Ukraine was the first item on the agenda.

"I spoke and the member states spoke. The general mood and the general signal is that there is an unprecedented level of support for the opening of negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the EU. At the same time, the decision itself has not been made, and the struggle for this decision will continue not only in in the coming days, but also during the meeting of the European Council itself. This is already obvious to everyone," Kuleba said.

According to him, during the meeting there was a discussion of the consequences if this decision is not made. "The EU members themselves emphasized in their speeches that this decision must be made not for the sake of Ukraine, but for the sake of the EU itself, its security and prosperity. And if such a decision is not made, it will be a blow to the EU. We agree with these assessments and continue to work at all levels to ensure consensus," the Ukrainian minister said.

Kuleba also said he told his colleagues that "this decision will take place anyway." "If someone wants it to take place not this week, but in a few weeks or a few months, then this is bad. But this decision will still be made, because you cannot stop the course of history. And history moves very simply: Ukraine will be a member EU. It's only a matter of time and price. And our task is to make the price as small as possible, and the time shorter. Remember: everyone who complains that a lot of money is spent on supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia, that the Ukrainian people pay the greatest price, and we must not pay an even greater price for the mistakes you make in Brussels or in individual European capitals," he said.

In addition, Kuleba criticized "the popular argument that if you stop supporting Ukraine, it will be a positive signal to Putin, and he will stop his aggression." "Nothing of the kind. This is a completely erroneous logic or paid for by the Kremlin itself," the minister said.