BRUSSELS—Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday failed to get a decisive breakthrough in their standoff over gas supplies to Kiev and will resume European Union-sponsored talks next week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukraine counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed on a broad thrust of a deal on Friday, but the issues on how, when and how much Ukraine should pay continued to divide the sides.
“One obstacle is that Ukraine has not paid its gas bills for 7 months,” said EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. “If you go along to the butcher and don’t pay your bill for half a year, obviously …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
