EurActiv Analyse: Russia and Ukraine finalise gas deal just ahead of New Year deadline
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Moscow and Kyiv on Monday (30 December) signed a five-year agreement on the transit of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, after months of difficult talks but just ahead of a looming New Year deadline, euractiv.com informs. The current gas transit deal between the two ex-Soviet countries expires Tuesday and ties between them have been shredded since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014 and supported a separatist insurgency in eastern ...