EU chair says Ukraine trade decision will cost Russia dearly


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 Nov 2013

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Russia's success in persuading Ukraine to reject a trade pact with the European Union is a "Pyrrhic victory" that will cost Moscow economically, said EU chair Lithuania, host of a summit this week where the deal had been due to be signed.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, whose country has also clashed with Russia on trade issues, told Reuters that Kiev should have resisted Moscow's pressure and gone ahead with the planned signing of the pact at the summit in Vilnius on Friday.

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