Yanukovych: Ukraine seriously damaged relations with Russia through its position on Russian-Georgian conflict
Viktor Yanukovych

Yanukovych: Ukraine seriously damaged relations with Russia through its position on Russian-Georgian conflict

November 20, 2008 at 13:54 | Interfax-Ukraine
Moscow, November 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Regions Party Leader Viktor Yanukovych has said that the position of the Ukrainian authorities during the Russian-Georgian conflict did considerable damage to Ukrainian-Russian relations, while speaking at a break during the congress of the United Russia party in Moscow on Thursday.

"I think the events surrounding the military conflict in South Ossetia seriously damaged relations between Ukraine and Russia. Actually, the Ukrainian authorities, [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yuschenko in particular, supported one side of the conflict - Georgia. I believe that position is inadmissible for Ukraine," he said, adding, that Ukraine shouldn't have got involved in the conflict.

According to Yanukovych, this is one of the factors that affects relations between Ukraine and Russia.