But following meetings between European Commission trade chief Karl De Gucht, Ukraine’s foreign minister, and Russia’s economy minister in Brussels on Friday (12 September) it will now be implemented on 31 December 2015.
Defending the deal, De Gucht told press it means Russia will not impose trade restrictions on Ukraine in the next 15 months.(…)
The trade pact is 5kg of technical documents, but it has symbolic value in Ukraine.