RFE/RL's news desk has issued this item on the gas talks in Brussels:
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has announced that substantial progress was reached in today's talks between representatives of Ukraine and Russia on gas supplies in Brussels.
Oettinger said as part of tentative deals, Ukraine planned to purchase some 4 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia before the end of this year.
Oettinger also said Ukraine would pay $1.4 billion of its debt to Russia for gas supplies already received before the end of October and another $1.6 billion by the end of this year.
The head of Russia's delegation to the talks, Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak, said the price of gas for Ukraine would be $385 per 1,000 cubic meters, $100 less than Russia was demanding just weeks ago.
Novak said that price would be in force from October 2014 until late March 2015.
Novak added the EU should take responsibility for guaranteeing Ukraine pay its $5.3-billion debt for gas to Russia before the end of 2014.
Oettinger announced another meeting would be held in Brussels on October 29.
(Reuters, TASS, Interfax)
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