Live Updates: Putin Mocks U.S. as Declining Power; Europe Recommends E.U. Candidacy for Ukraine
Despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s pleas for Ukraine’s admittance into the European Union, the process requires a serious overhaul of a country’s political, judiciary and economic systems.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times It was an impassioned plea: As war raged in his country, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked in…