Russia will now build its relations with Ukraine purely on the principles of rationality and pragmatism, RIA Novosti reported Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev's statement.
"We are not going to support Ukraine's economy anymore. It is a burden for us. And to be honest, we are tired of it," Medvedev said in his opinion piece in the Monday issue of Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper.
"Our countries are neighbors and we cannot avoid cooperation. But now this cooperation will be purely 'European', so to speak - rational and pragmatic," Medvedev said.