Ukraine has wasted four years

Dziennik newspaper criticises Ukraine for having frittered away in the gas dispute the trust the West had placed in it. "Ukraine has missed the opportunity to leave the Russian sphere of influence and integrate into the West in the foreseeable future. The gas crisis has brought home to the EU and the US the worrying state of the Ukrainian economy and the chaotic political situation in the country. Clearly Ukraine has wasted the four years that have elapsed since the Orange Revolution. They have lost the sympathy they had built up in the West. 'As opposed to in the last gas war in 2006, today no one in Brussels has the intention of siding with Kiev in the confrontation with Moscow. The credibility of the political elites in Ukraine is at around zero', says Katinka Barysch, an expert at London's Centre for European Reform."

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