Russia and the European Union have become hostages of the domestic political situation in Ukraine, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.
At a meeting with the prime ministers of Moldova, Slovakia and Bulgaria Medvedev drew attention to the fact that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that the Ukrainian president was to blame for the disruption of gas supplies from Russia.
“Those are their internal affairs but all of us have become hostages of the system of power that has evolved there, hostages of the political crisis that has broken out in Ukraine,” Medvedev said.
He voiced hope that Ukraine “as a state striving to interaction and full-scale relations with the EU will realize its responsibility.”
