The West will soon lose faith in Ukraine. Deutsche Welle, Germany
Publication date: 17 September 2016, 10:20
Kiev is stalling and maneuvering, when it comes to reform, so the West will soon lose faith in the fact that in Ukraine of a possible reform, says the head of the Ukrainian edition of the German channel Deutsche Welle, Bernd Johann.
Ukraine uses the conflict in the South-East of the country, to divert attention from the failures of the reforms, says the author. According to him, Kiev and then suggests that the West can “leave Ukraine in the lurch”, while the IMF gave the country a new tranche of one billion dollars.
Johann recalls that in his speech before the Rada, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tried to shift the responsibility for the failure of Kiev to Russia and even to the West. If the EU does so much for Ukraine.
In particular, the EU does a lot for Ukraine — political support, financial assistance and open markets. Sanctions against Russia remain in force. Even visa-free regime with the EU has become for citizens of Ukraine is within reach,” he notes.
However, in the West are gradually losing faith in the ability of Ukraine to carry out reforms.
“Ukrainian oligarchs went back to the old dismantling. Corruption and nepotism to win and failed”, — stated in the material.
In addition, Ukraine has big problems with freedom of speech — on the media pressure, journalists are killed, the radicals pelted the building of the channel with Molotov cocktails, and politicians, in turn, just for all those watching, concludes the author.
RIA Novosti
