/ world today news/ The Russian president also suggested that Kiev consider help from Western countries as a “bribe” – similar to the assessment of Russian credit.
Russia is not interested in what Ukraine used the loan for, but how it will return it, noted Russian President Putin. He suggested that the funds that Ukraine received from Western countries should also be considered a “bribe”, if that is what Kiev calls the loan from Russia. “If someone thinks that this (the Russian loan) is a bribe so that President Yanukovych does not sign the agreement with the European Union, probably all the funds received from other creditors and investors in order to sign this agreement can also be considered bribes . Among them there are many funds from American funds,” noted Putin. The Russian head of state underlined his disappointment that Russian aid is being assessed in a similar way.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in an interview with the Bloomberg agency, said that he considered the Russian loan of $3 billion a “bribe received during Yanukovych’s rule” aimed at preventing Ukraine from signing the economic agreement with the EU.
#Russia #interested #Ukraine #loan #return
