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Oettinger in Kiev at 2am local time on Monday said talks had broken down (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Russia to stop gas to Ukraine, rejects EU proposal

Russian firm Gazprom is stopping gas supplies to Ukraine after talks on a new price broke down in the small hours of Monday (16 June).

It said in a statement published at 10am Moscow time – its deadline for Ukraine to pay almost $2 billion of old debt – that it is switching to "prepayment for gas supplies … Starting today, the Ukrainian company will only get the Russian gas it has paid for".

It added that Ukraine has not made prepayments for June.

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