NEWSMAX / AP: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says it is important that Ukraine hold together, emphasizing the battle for influence between Russia and the West in the crisis roiling the country…
The former Soviet leader told AP that the people of Ukraine have a “common history” and that an attempt by the European Union, the United States or Russia to “have things their own way … would be wrong.”
Ukraine is deeply divided between largely pro-Russian eastern regions and western areas that long for closer ties with the European Union.. (more)
