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Relations between Russia and Ukraine were good until 2014, but when the European Union invited Ukraine to sign a ‘free trade agreement’, its president Viktor Yanukovych rejected not only the agreement, but also the Eurasian Economic Union. joined, which is a trade group. This move is said to have led the EU to resent Ukraine, a breakaway country from the USSR, and began trying to bring it under its influence, which it succeeded in doing.