FOCUS - Moscow heaps pressure on Kiev to give up EU hopes

Russia is piling the pressure on Ukraine to give up on its European ambitions. Kiev has drawn up an agreement with the EU, to be signed in November, which includes a free trade area. This would preclude Ukraine's ever joining Putin's customs union with Kazakhstan and Belarus. Losing Ukraine would effectively scupper Russia's ambitions to create a Eurasian space to rival the European Union. Moscow is now employing various tactics to prove to Ukraine that the EU path is not the right choice.
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