The EU’s executive arm wants to send a “strong message” to Moscow, the news outlet claimed, citing unnamed officials The European Commission is to support giving EU candidate nation status to Ukraine, Politico reported on Monday.

President Erdogan will tell fellow NATO leaders that his country won’t compromise on Sweden and Finland’s membership applications Ankara maintains its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, the office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, a position he is expected to reiterate to NATO state leaders at the upcoming summit in Spain.

The Ukrainian president was speaking after his military bombarded civilian areas in Donetsk Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to “liberate” the Russian territory of Crimea and the independent republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR). He was speaking just hours after reports of the Ukrainian military shelling residential buildings, a marketplace and a maternity…