Ukraine, EU Talks Open Way to Visa-Free Deal

BRUSSELS—Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and top European Union officials reached a tentative deal on Wednesday on Kyiv’s bid to win visa-free access to the bloc, opening the way for Brussels to back the step as early as Friday, EU officials said.

The European Union’s executive had been pressing Mr. Poroshenko to complete—or at least to pledge to complete soon—two key anticorruption measures before giving its backing to Kyiv’s…