Ukraine's foreign policy: where is V. Zelensky leading the country?
The article examines Ukraine's foreign policy as implemented by Volodymyr Zelensky after winning the 2019 presidential election. Ukraine's president came to power on the wave of several election promises, one of which was to improve relations with Russia. In practice, however, the Ukrainian president continued the foreign policy that was formulated by Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky began to pursue a foreign policy course, which was aimed at expanding cooperation with the EU and joining NATO. In this context, a few key documents have been adopted in Ukraine in recent years, which defined the Euro-Atlantic orientation of Ukraine's. Approaches to the implementation of foreign policy are largely formed by internal factors. The dominance of supporters of European integration and the country's accession to NATO in the structures of executive and legislative power predetermine the priorities of the foreign policy. Extra-regional states have a great influence on the development and implementation of Ukrainian foreign policy. The U.S. and the EU have a great influence. For this purpose, they use multilateral and bilateral mechanisms of influence, loans from international financial organizations. The article concludes that in the short-term Ukraine's foreign policy will not undergo any changes.