KYIV, UKRAINE; AND BERLIN - Last November, Ukraine was thrust into chaos after its then-president, under pressure from Moscow, rejected a European Union trade and association deal. Now, seven months later, after losing Crimea to Russia and in the midst of a deadly conflict with pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, the country’s new, Western-leaning President Petro Poroshenko has put a final signature on the deal.
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Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko gives a press conference on the sidelines of of the EU Council on June 27, 2014, in Brussels.
