Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev believes that Ukrainian leaders are making the same mistake as Viktor Yanukovych by pushing the European path, reports B92.
"When we talk about the European election and possible membership in the European Union in the coming years, I think that Petro Poroshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk are making the same mistake as the former president of Ukraine Yanukovych," said Medvedev.
However, he pointed out that there is a difference between the former and current leadership of Ukraine.
"Yanukovych realized that the European path was a mistake and found the courage to stop the European integration process. The current leaders do not want to think about the details, they are silent about the fact that Ukraine does not have all the standards for a candidate for membership in the European Union," added Medvedev.
The Ukrainian authorities failed to come up with a better plan for the development of their country than anti-Russian rhetoric, but official Moscow will not react to these provocations, wrote Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an article published in today's edition of the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" newspaper.
Medvedev pointed out that Russia, on the contrary, will continue to support the citizens of neighboring Ukraine, bearing in mind that the most difficult times for the Ukrainian economy are yet to come, the Tass agency reported. "We in Russia are worried about these events in Ukraine as we are worried about our own problems, and we help those who accept our help with a malicious smile," wrote the Russian Prime Minister in the text "Russia and Ukraine: Life by New Rules".
"I sincerely regret that the representatives of the Ukrainian elite neither proposed nor applied any other strategic program for the development of the country," Medvedev said and added: "Regardless of what insinuations they send us, we have no right to respond to those provocations, nor to forget that on the other side of the border live people who are close to us in spirit, culture, and mentality, people whose fate will always matter to us." The Prime Minister of Russia pointed out that within just one year, Ukraine experienced a deep division of society, the collapse of the economy, outbursts of radicalism, including the highlighting of Nazi symbols, as well as military actions on its territory against its own compatriots.
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