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Brussels is hoping for more Russia-Ukraine gas talks this weekend, our news desk reports:
EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger says he hopes gas talks between Russia and Ukraine will resume on June 14.
Oettinger was speaking to journalists on June 13 as he arrived for a meeting with EU energy ministers in Luxembourg.
He said he expects both parties to be represented by their energy ministers and the chiefs of their gas companies.
Oettinger said he was willing to meet anywhere.
The latest round of EU-brokered talks broke up on June 11 in Brussels with Ukraine rejecting a Russian offer to reduce its gas price by $100 per 1,000 cubic meters -- from $485 to $385.
Gazprom head Aleksei Miller said on June 12 that Russia would halt supplies should Ukraine fail to come through on a nearly $2 billion debt payment by June 16. (dpa and AFP)
Oettinger was speaking to journalists on June 13 as he arrived for a meeting with EU energy ministers in Luxembourg.
He said he expects both parties to be represented by their energy ministers and the chiefs of their gas companies.
Oettinger said he was willing to meet anywhere.
The latest round of EU-brokered talks broke up on June 11 in Brussels with Ukraine rejecting a Russian offer to reduce its gas price by $100 per 1,000 cubic meters -- from $485 to $385.
Gazprom head Aleksei Miller said on June 12 that Russia would halt supplies should Ukraine fail to come through on a nearly $2 billion debt payment by June 16. (dpa and AFP)
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LATEST from our news desk on the fighting in Mariupol:
Reports from Ukraine say government forces have encircled the rebel-held port city of Mariupol.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, writing on Facebook, said Ukrainian troops had launched a dawn attack on the city on June 13.
Rebel forces confirmed fighting was under way and said five separatists had been killed.
Avakov said key rebel fortifications had been taken over and sniper positions destroyed. He said two soldiers had been wounded.
The rebels said they had blown up an armored personnel carrier carrying government soldiers and that "many" had been injured.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, writing on Facebook, said Ukrainian troops had launched a dawn attack on the city on June 13.
Rebel forces confirmed fighting was under way and said five separatists had been killed.
Avakov said key rebel fortifications had been taken over and sniper positions destroyed. He said two soldiers had been wounded.
The rebels said they had blown up an armored personnel carrier carrying government soldiers and that "many" had been injured.
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This video, said to have been shot on June 12 in Maiyivka, outside Donetsk, shows a short column of tanks with a Russian flag: