Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and Director for the Center of East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Gwendolyn Sasse, spoke to Barabara Wesel from the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle about the candidate status of Ukraine to the European Union. It sends the signal that Europe will support Ukraine after the war, explained Sasse. On the other hand, it shows the Russian president that "destroying the political and economic model of Ukraine can be a risk for Russia itself". The German article is available here.