It was supposed to be a success for Ukraine’s pro-western leadership: a deal with low-cost airline Ryanair to enter the market with flights to Kyiv and the western city of Lviv.
It would have helped Ukrainians take advantage of the visa-free travel they were recently granted by the EU — and shown that Ukraine, three years on from its pro-democracy revolution, is ready to attract much-needed investment. Instead, the opposite happened.