To this end, Putin has always resisted Ukraine’s historic turn to the West, about which the EU itself has been standoffish in the past. The EU was prepared to recognize Ukraine’s “European vocation,” but it did as little as it could to encourage this outcome.
为此普京一直反对乌克兰历史性地像西方靠拢，而欧盟过去在这个问题上同样热情不高。欧盟曾准备承认乌克兰的“欧洲使命”，但它真正为此所做的工作却少之又少。