Gazprom to further cut Ukraine gas

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Source: "agencies"

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has said it will cut Ukraine's gas supply by a further 25 per cent over a debt dispute.

Gazprom has already cut supplies by 25 per cent and has decided "to cut deliveries by another 25 per cent" at 1700 GMT on Tuesday, Sergei Kupriyanov, its spokesman said on state television.

The Gazprom spokesman also said that talks with Ukraine over the gas cut have not restarted.

Kupriyanov said gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine were uninterrupted, running at capacity at 356.6 million cubic metres of gas per day.

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