By Gabriela Baczynska and Tom Balmforth
Ukraine expects the European Union’s executive to deliver a “positive” appraisal of its membership bid this week, a senior government official in Kyiv said on Monday, adding it had carried out the reforms required of it.
The European Commission is expected in a report on Wednesday to recommend taking Ukraine one step closer to becoming a member of the bloc, EU officials say, a coveted prize for Kyiv as weariness creeps in more than 20 months after Russia’s invasion.