Moscow (AFP) – Gazprom on Thursday said that the EU and Ukraine must agree a deal for Kiev to pay off its gas debts to Russia before talks on restarting deliveries to the strife-torn nation can restart. “The European Commission must reach an agreement with Ukraine over the question of financing. Otherwise, negotiations make no sense,” Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kuprianov told AFP.EU-brokered talks overnight in Brussels to solve the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which threatens to hit parts of Europe this winter, broke up without agreement.Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak had said earlier that negotiations “were not …read more
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