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First Watch: Ukraine no chess piece, says Obama

By Ali Watkins and Julie Moos - McClatchy Washington Bureau

February 20, 2014 07:11 AM

Protestors flock to Independence Square in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine once again failed to cut the historical umbilical cord tying it to Russia and failed to change its political and economic orientation toward Western Europe as its President Viktor Yanukovich was returning Friday from Lithuania, where he didn't sign the long expected Association Agreement with European Union.
Protestors flock to Independence Square in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine once again failed to cut the historical umbilical cord tying it to Russia and failed to change its political and economic orientation toward Western Europe as its President Viktor Yanukovich was returning Friday from Lithuania, where he didn't sign the long expected Association Agreement with European Union. MCT
Protestors flock to Independence Square in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine once again failed to cut the historical umbilical cord tying it to Russia and failed to change its political and economic orientation toward Western Europe as its President Viktor Yanukovich was returning Friday from Lithuania, where he didn't sign the long expected Association Agreement with European Union. MCT

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