Ukraine has stopped buying Russian natural gas and Russia halted shipments to Ukraine the two sides said in tit-for-tat comments Wednesday, following the expiration of an interim agreement on gas supplies and prices with Russia’s Gazprom.
Gazprom said it cut off gas supplies to Ukraine because Kiev has not paid its bills. “Gazprom will not supply Ukraine under any gas price if there is no prepayment,” the company’s CEO Alexei Miller said, according to Russian media.
Ukraine’s state gas company Naftogaz said it would resume imports only when a new longer-term supply deal was agreed with Russia that would run at least …read more
Source: European Voice
