IBTimes: Russia, Ukraine and EU Set for Three-Way Gas Talks

Energy ministers from Ukraine and Russia will meet with the European Union's energy commissioner early next month, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"Agreement was reached that the next round of consultations on energy issues with the participation of European Commissioner Oettinger, Russian and Ukrainian ministers of fuel and energy will take place on September 6," Poroshenko said, after holding direct talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Belarus.

Ukraine is facing the prospect of a shortfall in natural gas this winter after its Russian supplier cut off deliveries to Kiev over a price dispute that coincided with Moscow's annexation of Crimea in March.

Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom halted deliveries to Ukraine after Kiev refused to pay an inflated price for has.
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