Putin: Russia Will Charge Ukraine Market Gas Price

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia will charge Ukraine full market price for natural gas and will agree to pay a higher, market-based fee to ship that gas over Ukrainianpipelines.

By: Associated Press | WSAV News 3
Published: January 08, 2009

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MOSCOW (AP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia will charge Ukraine full market price for natural gas and will agree to pay a higher, market-based fee to ship that gas over Ukrainian
pipelines.

Putin has blamed corruption in Ukraine for the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute that cut gas supplies to the European Union this week.

He urged the European Union on Thursday to quickly send observers to Ukraine to oversee the transit gas shipments to Europe.

Ukrainian officials have denied Russian accusations that they siphoned off gas intended for Europe, saying instead they needed to use some of the Russian gas to keep the pipelines running. Putin
insists that Ukraine must use its own gas for that purpose.