Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser in the office of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, pictured in Kyiv on Monday. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin“It’s fundamentally important,” Mr Podolyak said on Monday of the need for European peacekeepers to back up any peace agreement in Ukraine. Taoiseach Micheál Martin during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Shannon Airport last February. France's president Emmanuel Macron welcomes his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy prior to their meeting at the Élysée palace in Paris. “This is a discussion for Ireland, but Ukraine was also militarily neutral when Russia attacked us in 2014,” Mr Podolyak says.
