Ukraine-European Union Relations
OP-ED
Simon Shuster: How Putin got his way in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) walk as they visit the House-Museum of famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov in Yalta on August 14, 2014.
By agreeing to delay the full implementation of a trade deal with Ukraine, the European Union effectively accepted Moscow’s dominance. After all the lives and territory Ukraine has lost this year, it’s easy to lose sight of the way its conflict with Russia began last winter, when Moscow tried to elbow its way into Ukraine’s economic pact with Europe.
