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Directing natural gas from the European Union to Ukraine if Russia stops supplying its western neighbour would fail to keep up with demand for long as capacity between the EU and Ukraine is too small, analysts said on Thursday.

Ukraine last year imported around 28 billion cubic metres
(bcm) of natural gas from Russia, which wants to maintain its
influence over the former Soviet republic and fend off EU
efforts to limit Moscow’s sway.

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