Head of Russia Duma committee for foreign relations Konstantin Kosachev called the gas declaration between EU and Ukraine to modernize Ukraine gas pipelines “a delayed action mine.”

“It seems to me that EU representatives were misled by Ukrainian representatives into believing that Russia’s opinion should not be taken. They probably told the European officials that Russia will agree to any terms that the Ukrainian will negotiate with Brussels. This kind of tactics, Kosachev continued, is not typical of the relationships between Russia and the EU. It is rather typical of the present Ukrainian leaders who seek to access European structures and cut Russia from European integration processes.”