President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday held a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

Von der Leyen told Zelenskyy that her executive will "by the end of next week" finalize its opinion on whether Ukraine should be a candidate country to join the EU.

"The discussions today will enable us to finalize our assessment by the end of next week," she said.

(With input from AFP)