Bloomberg Hungary is simultaneously urging the speeding up of Ukraine’s integration into the European Union while maintaining close ties to Russia, according to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief adviser. “‘The Hungarian position is based on the idea of connectivity,” Balazs Orban, who’s unrelated to the premier, said in an interview in Brussels, referring to Russia. “So we should not ...

Bloomberg A salvo of Russian missiles knocked out power across Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued their campaign of attacking infrastructure. Rockets slammed into residential areas across the country, including the capital Kyiv, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, and Poltava suffered blackouts in the ninth barrage since October. The attack, which underscores Moscow’s focus ...

Bloomberg Japan described China as an “unprecedented strategic challenge” in a new national security policy that sets the long-pacifist nation on course for its biggest increase in defense spending since the end of World War II. The new strategy, approved by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet and seen by Bloomberg in a draft, laid out plans for Japan to develop ...