‘Ukraine’s future, post-war, is in Europe and the European Union’

Ukraine foreign minister Andrii Sybiha: ‘Our people deserve to become part of the EU.’ File picture: Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP/Getty

Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha is in confident form in the Turkish city of Antalya where he is attending the annual Antalya Diplomacy Forum.

World leaders, heads of state, and foreign ministers come here every April to talk to each other and the media and promote dialogue. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is also in attendance, just a few hundred metres down a corridor, but the two do not meet or cross paths.