Putin Accuses EU Of ‘Blackmailing’ Kyiv
Maja Kocijancic, the spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said that Ukraine wasn’t a prize to be won.
“It was a relationship that we started to build a long time ago. It’s a partnership between the European Union and Ukraine,” Kocijancic said.
“We respect the decision of Ukraine but we have outlined a very good case in this partnership and, as I said, we continue to believe that Ukraine’s future lies in a strong relationship with the European Union. And we were working exactly in that direction.”