Russia is offering to sell natural gas below market rate to cash-strapped Ukraine, providing it can pay off the $2 billion it owes Gazprom by June 26, the country’s Energy Ministry said on June 12.
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Russian Energy minister Aleksandr Novak talks during a press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart after the Trilateral meeting between the EU, Russia and Ukraine on energy security at the EU headquarters in Brussels on June 11, 2014.
