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So much for Naftogaz and Gazprom playing nice. The energy giants, which are basically stand-ins for official Kyiv and Moscow, are back at each other’s throats with Ukraine’s Naftogaz saying on Dec. 19 that Russia might even stop natural gas deliveries to European via Ukraine this winter.

Gazprom said today that sees “some risks for gas transit” through Ukraine to Europe — its main pipelines into the region — and warned that if Naftogaz delivered Russian gas to those markets unauthorized it would cut off supplies, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told reporters in Moscow.

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