From the article: "Russia is sensitive about Ukrainian membership of the EU. Ukraine houses the Russian Black Sea naval fleet at Sevastopol, which was in Russia until the Crimean Peninsula was gifted to Ukraine by Nikita Kruschev in the 1950s."Have you forgotten what David Cameron said IT?
EU should extend further into former Soviet Union, says David Cameron
Speaking in Kazakhstan, British PM says European Union should stretch from the Atlantic to the Uralswww.theguardian.com
Although the article is 9 years old it's anothr timely reminder why Russia felt pressured into responding to American infleunce in the region.