Ukraine feels let down by the European Union for not keeping to a promise to give its citizens visa-free travel in the bloc, senior Ukrainian officials said.
The comments, made by two senior officials in interviews with Reuters, were unusually outspoken and cut through the public displays of bonhomie shown at a Ukraine-EU summit in Brussels in November.
They are also a reflection of Ukraine’s nervousness about being abandoned by Western backers in its stand-off with Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and Moscow’s support for separatist rebels in the Donbass region.
These worries have been heightened by events seen as playing …read more
Source: Voice of America
