Russia’s war won’t stop Brussels and Kyiv starting talks on Ukraine joining the EU, diplomats say.The European Union is gearing up to open negotiations with Ukraine on its future accession to the bloc with a formal announcement expected as soon as December.According to three diplomats with knowledge of the plans, leaders are preparing to give Kyiv the green light to begin formal talks on joining the 27-country bloc before the end of the year.Ukraine is at the heart of a major new push to expand the EU to as many as 35 countries. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her...…Russia’s war won’t stop Brussels and Kyiv starting talks on Ukraine joining the EU, diplomats say.The European Union is gearing up to open negotiations with Ukraine on its future accession to the bloc with a formal announcement expected as soon as December.According to three diplomats with knowledge of the plans, leaders are preparing to give Kyiv the green light to begin formal talks on joining the 27-country bloc before the end of the year.Ukraine is at the heart of a major new push to expand the EU to as many as 35 countries. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her...WW…

Beijing is now the UK spy service’s main focus, ahead of Russia or anywhere else.Press play to listen to this articleVoiced by artificial intelligence. China and its communist ruler Xi Jinping are “absolutely complicit” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service (known as MI6) said at a rare public appearance hosted by POLITICO in Prague Wednesday. Richard Moore — known in the intelligence community as “C” — also blamed China for enabling the brutal actions of Myanmar’s military junta and warned of threats to other countries from Chinese “data...…Beijing is now the UK spy service’s main focus, ahead of Russia or anywhere else.Press play to listen to this articleVoiced by artificial intelligence. China and its communist ruler Xi Jinping are “absolutely complicit” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service (known as MI6) said at a rare public appearance hosted by POLITICO in Prague Wednesday. Richard Moore — known in the intelligence community as “C” — also blamed China for enabling the brutal actions of Myanmar’s military junta and warned of threats to other countries from Chinese “data...WW…

Vladimir Putin is “under pressure” at home following an aborted mutiny by warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin that resulted in the Russian president having to cut a “humiliating” deal to “save his skin,” the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service told POLITICO. Richard Moore said that Prigozhin’s uprising was indicative of “deep fractures” within the Russian elite and that Putin had to realize something was “deeply rotten” in his country, even if he could not speak to the Russian leader’s current mental state. The spy chief, who was speaking at a POLITICO event hosted by the British embassy in...…Vladimir Putin is “under pressure” at home following an aborted mutiny by warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin that resulted in the Russian president having to cut a “humiliating” deal to “save his skin,” the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service told POLITICO. Richard Moore said that Prigozhin’s uprising was indicative of “deep fractures” within the Russian elite and that Putin had to realize something was “deeply rotten” in his country, even if he could not speak to the Russian leader’s current mental state. The spy chief, who was speaking at a POLITICO event hosted by the British embassy in...WW…