Reader's Blog: Russia not opposed to Ukraine-EU association

The article by Mr Carl Bildt ‘Ukraine has fended off Russia and the EU deserves credit’ (Irish Examiner, April 24) not only presents events in Ukraine in a misleading way, but contains a great number of factual errors as well.

Reader's Blog: Russia not opposed to Ukraine-EU association
Tue, 30 Apr, 2019 - 01:00

The article by Mr Carl Bildt ‘Ukraine has fended off Russia and the EU deserves credit’ (Irish Examiner, April 24) not only presents events in Ukraine in a misleading way, but contains a great number of factual errors as well.

1. It is disturbing when the former prime minister of a European country tries to justify mass killing in the Donbass region as an act of “restoring order” by Kiev authorities. It is exactly the Poroshenko regime that started in 2014 and has been waging war with its own population that led to thousands of people killed by Ukrainian armed forces and nazi-type paramilitary groups of Ukrainian nationalists in the eastern part of Ukraine.

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