04 Jan 2009;economictimes.indiatimes.com:KIEV, UKRAINE: A top Ukrainian official warned on Saturday that European customers could see serious natural gas disruptions in about two weeks if
the energy dispute between Russia and Ukraine is not resolved, and the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom accused Ukraine of boycotting contract negotiations. As Russia and Ukraine traded accusations in their bitter dispute over energy prices, four European nations, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria, all reported some supply drops in natural gas on Saturday.
Gazprom cut off gas shipments to Ukraine on Thursday. Then Gazprom and Ukraine embarked on dueling charm offensives, both trying to assure western European nations that they were reliable energy partners and the fault lay with their rival.
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