Ukraine announced that it had outplayed Russia
The Association Agreement with the European Union has proven its effectiveness for Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated this during a speech at the 15th annual meeting of the “Yalta European Strategy” YES in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The struggle for signing the agreement on the Association took place before your eyes. The vicissitudes of our struggle with the Russian Federation are already on the field of the European continent for the ratification of this agreement, which lasted three years. Everyone remembers the referendum in the Netherlands. I can firmly say that we outplayed Russia. And it’s been about a year since the association agreement with the EU came into force. And every day it proves its effectiveness and correctness,” the president said.
According to him, today one can look at the calculations of scientists under Yanukovych about multi-billion-dollar losses due to association with the EU as an anecdote.
“Everything is exactly the opposite. The EU's share of exports now ranges from 42% to 43%, rapidly approaching 50%. This is significant compensation for the losses that the Russian Federation created for us due to war, hybrid aggression, economic blockade, and closure of markets,” Poroshenko assures.
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