what reaction in Russia?

On Thursday 23 June, the European Union granted candidate status to Ukraine. In duplex from Kaliningrad (Russia) in the 23h of Franceinfo, the journalist Luc Lacroix explains that in Russia, “the official position is Vladimir Putin who gave it even before today’s (Thursday) decision, saying in short it doesn’t matter, since the European Union is an economic alliance, not a military alliance like the “NATO. He also added that by doing this, Ukraine would become a kind of European colony”he says.

The journalist indicates that there is “no visible anger, rather contempt, but letting go, saying that it is not important is not trivial. On the one hand, it is in line with what Russia is saying, which discredits the European Union by saying that it is divided, that it is weak, that it is no more than the appendix of NATO and the United States. But on the other hand, this comes to recognize the linking Ukraine to Europe and that goes against what Vladimir Putin says when he says that the Russians and the Ukrainians are brother peoples”explains Luc Lacroix.