Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday issued a rare rebuke to the Kremlin by describing as unfriendly a Russian plan to build an ambitious new gas pipeline that would bypass Ukraine’s territory.
Yanukovych has worked hard to improve relations between Moscow and Kiev since defeating the leaders of the pro-Western Orange Revolution in presidential elections this year.
But in an interview with Agence France-Presse and two other foreign news agencies in Kyiv, he said building the South Stream pipeline would only have made sense when the former anti-Kremlin leadership was in power.
