Russia and Ukraine, however, already have a free-trade agreement, via the Commonwealth of Independent States free-trade agreement signed in October 2011, which is compatible with the proposed EU Association Agreement – in the same way that Mexico maintains free-trade treaties with the EU, as well as with the US and Canada. Ukraine thus could have maintained normal relations with its neighbors, with the EU, and with Russia.
但俄乌之间通过2011年10月签署的独联体自由贸易协定已经签署了自由贸易协定，而该协定与拟议中的欧盟联合协定并不冲突——类似的例子是墨西哥与欧盟签署了自由贸易协定，与美国和加拿大也一样。这样乌克兰原本可以和邻国、欧盟及俄罗斯都保持关系正常。