The Economist calls postponement of free trade Kyiv’s defeat

The postponement of a free trade area between Ukraine and the EU is a defeat of Kyiv, Britain’s Economist magazine has reported.
British journalists, in an article “Win some, lose more,” state that no one doubts the defeat of Ukraine. The only thing that can save the country is the creation of a strong political and economic state.
According to the magazine, the Russian public does not support full-scale war with Ukraine, and the killing of its own soldiers, who were not even meant to be involved, has been uncomfortable for the Kremlin. And for all Moscow’s bravado, Western sanctions have pushed Russia’s economy closer to recession. Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s former finance minister, talks of a 5% contraction in GDP if more sanctions are imposed.
According to The Economist, Russian and Ukrainian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko have reasons to want a truce: Putin to avoid more sanctions and questions from relatives of dead soldiers, and Poroshenko ahead of a parliamentary election on October 26. According to British journalists, this does not mean the end of Ukraine’s troubles and Russia’s adventurism. The Kremlin’s goal is not just to control two cities in eastern Ukraine, but to stop all of Ukraine from moving westward.
“The only way Ukraine can realize its European aspirations is over many years, by building an economically and politically coherent state. That will take patience, money and time from the West and perseverance from Ukraine. But not to try would mean the ultimate defeat and betrayal of those who died for Ukraine’s sovereignty,” the magazine wrote.

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