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Gas meter: The 20 percent hike has fallen victim to Ukraine's political scene (Photo: eastpole)

Ukraine failing to meet EU conditions for gas loan

by Andrew Rettman, Brussels,

There is no risk of a fresh gas supply crisis in the coming winter despite Ukraine's inability to meet the conditions of an EU-brokered loan for its ailing national gas company, a senior Ukrainian official has said.

"Right now, Ukraine is ready to pump gas to European customers. We have enough gas in our underground storage tanks to ensure supplies for the winter of 2009 and 2010," Ukraine's top official in charge of energy security, Bohdan Sokolovsky, told EUobserver in a phone intervi...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Gas meter: The 20 percent hike has fallen victim to Ukraine's political scene (Photo: eastpole)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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