Yanukovych’s ouster, and prompting Russia to annex Crimea and foment the Russian-backed separatist war in the east. Putin, protests erupted in Kyiv, leading to the country’s pro-Western revolution and Mr. When Ukraine backed out of the European deal under pressure from Mr. Putin wanted Ukraine to be part of a Russia-led customs union instead that already included Belarus and Kazakhstan. Yanukovych, was in the last stages of negotiating a trade agreement with the bloc. The explosiveness of Ukraine’s relationship with the European Union became apparent in 2013, when the country’s Russia-friendly president at the time, Viktor F. is becoming a screen for the Anglo-Saxon games against Moscow.” “No, Russia will not allow this, because it understands perfectly well that the E.U. “What will Europe get? Ukraine or its remnants?” an essay published by RIA Novosti, the Russian state news agency, asked on Thursday. In the Kremlin’s narrative, it is the anti-Russian axis of Washington and London that is pushing Brussels to accept Ukraine as a member, against the European Union’s best interests.
Putin’s failure to keep Ukrainians’ hearts and minds in his orbit. Because everything can change.”īut it is also clear that Ukraine’s desire to align itself with neighbors to its West represents the latest reminder of Mr. “This sense even further reduces the significance of the decision on candidate status. “There’s a point of view that Ukraine either won’t exist, or won’t exist in its current geographic boundaries,” said Andrei Kortunov, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, a research organization close to the Russian government, describing the mood in Moscow. application has not been a top story on the news in Russia. That may be one reason the country’s E.U. and the desire of growing numbers of Ukrainians to join it.įor Russians and Ukrainians alike, the question of whether Ukraine will someday in fact join the European Union is secondary to the question of how the country survives the current Russian invasion. Putin’s charged and vexing relationship with the E.U.
It was another example of mixed messaging by the Kremlin, which started before the war with inscrutable positions on whether diplomacy could avert a conflict and continued after the invasion with ambiguous stances on a potential peace deal.īut one thing seems clear: The attainment of candidate status by Ukraine marks a milestone in Mr. Chizhov, told a state-run newspaper this week. enlargement process to be negative - hostile, in fact - in relation to Russian national interests,” Russia’s ambassador to the bloc, Vladimir A. Putin of Russia sounded uncharacteristically subdued last week when asked about the prospect of Ukraine achieving candidate status for the European Union: “We have no objections.”īut since then, Russian officials and analysts have said that Mr. Petersburg, Russia, last week, including a claim to not object to Ukraine possibly achieving candidate status for the European Union.
Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Putin of Russia delivered lengthy remarks at the St.
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