“We want to and we are ready to the relations with Ukraine fully recover,” said Putin on Thursday in the ostrussischen Vladivostok journalists. It narrowed, however, that Russia could not do so “unilaterally”.
The relations between the two neighboring countries are affected is difficult. Russia had annexed in 2014, the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea and supported separatist fighters in the East of the country.
In the runoff presidential elections in Ukraine, the actor and comedian Volodymyr Selenskyj on Sunday had a clear stand against the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko. The latter had gone on a confrontation course with Moscow. Putin said on Thursday that the significant victory Selenskyjs show the “complete Failure” of Poroshenko’s policy.
Putin expressed only a day after signing a decree that makes it easier for people in the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the East of Ukraine to get Russian passports. (AFP)
Created: 25.04.2019, 13:09 PM