Viktor Yanukovych, the embattled Ukrainian president, flew to Moscow in comfort on Tuesday, taking a lift on the luxurious Airbus owned by Rinat Akhmetov, his long-time backer and the richest of Ukraine’s oligarchs. Yet it’s far from certain that, back in Kyiv, Yanukovych was comfortable about his controversial $20bn bailout deal brokered with Vladimir Putin – or that Akhmetov was happy to have provided his plane for the trip.
Both men’s discomfort will have been
exacerbated on Wednesday by news that the European Union had been ready to
offer Ukraine $20bn in loans if Yanukovych had signed up to EU trade and
association agreements as expected in late November.
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