Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said on Tuesday that the terms of a financial aid offer from the EU have been humiliating and he'd consider signing a landmark free trade pact with the bloc only once it suited Ukraine's interests.
He said the EU had offered aid worth 610 million euros and had linked this to Ukraine agreeing on a fresh programme with the International Monetary Fund which itself had laid down unacceptable conditions.
"We don't need to be humiliated like this. We are a significant country. A European one," he explained in a television declaration. "When it corresponds to our interests, when we have agreed (with the EU) on normal conditions, (only) then can we consider signing," he explained
