MOSCOW (Reuters) - An envoy sent to Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin to participate in mediation efforts on Saturday criticised the European Union ministers who helped broker a peace deal in Kiev.
"I do not understand, frankly, how after recognising the legitimacy of President Yanukovich, the parliament, all the state structures, my European colleagues can then come to Kiev and go to the nationalist-revolutionary and terrorist Maidan and say there - down with the legitimate government they recognised," Vladimir Lukin said in a television interview.