EU leaders set for tough table-talk with Ukraine’s Yanukovich

By means of Natalia Zinets VILNIUS (Reuters) – The European Union instructed Ukraine it used to be risking its economic future by rejecting a free-change deal in desire of closer ties with Russia, hours earlier than a probable frosty encounter on Thursday evening between EU leaders and President Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich was because of fly into the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in time for a dinner in honor of the Eastern Partnership, the EU's 4-yr-old outreach program for former Soviet republics, including Ukraine. He had been expected to sign a some distance-reaching free-exchange and political affiliation handle the EU at the Vilnius summit, the result of years of negotiation.