Metsola thanks Ukraine for commitment to reforms

The European Parliament and the Verkhovna Rada have strengthened cooperation to ensure the European future of Ukraine.

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola posted this on Twitter, Ukrinform reports.

"Our support to Ukraine gets stronger. This week, the European Parliament and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine strengthened cooperation to ensure Ukraine’s future in our European family. Thank you President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk for your commitment to reform," the post reads.

As reported by Ukrinform, from April 24 to 28, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held an urgent debate on the deportation of Ukrainian children by the occupiers to Russia and recognized the deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children by the occupiers to the territory of Russia as genocide, and also called on the International Criminal Court to consider the possibility of criminal prosecution of this crime.