OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2011. Russia is a very important for Ukraine, this was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov in the interview with Larry King.

"It is very important. We get all energy sources from Russia: gas, oil, petroleum products and not only. Russia for us is a third of our turnover. In Russia, 2million Ukrainian employs, they could not find work in Ukraine and went to work in Russia," the Head of Ukrainian Government stated, responding to the question about the significance of the Russian Federation to Ukraine.

However, Mykola Azarov said, it is quite difficult to carry on negotiations and to reach compromise with the Russian leadership, "Putin is very complicated person. When he has some kind of goal, he achieves it enough rigidly and it is very difficult to reach compromises with him."

According to the Prime Minister does not always work out to find a common language: "But we will still try to agree, and where are we to go now? This is reality."