A “catastrophic misreading” of the Kremlin’s mood helped precipitate the Ukraine crisis and the dangerous East-West stand-off we see today. This was the central conclusion of a report on EU relations with Russia “before and beyond the crisis in Ukraine”, compiled by the House of Lords European Union Committee. Specifically, the committee found that British and EU diplomacy had failed to appreciate – in time, or even at all – what a dim view Moscow would take of the 2013 free trade agreement being finalised between Brussels and Kiev. …read more
Source: The Independent
