Ukraine rejects Russia’s latest gas request

KIEV, Ukraine


With the cutoff of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine in its ninth day, there was little sign of an end to the delivery drought despite the EU’s vocal objections. After visiting Kiev and Moscow to press his case Wednesday, the prime minister of gas-starved Slovakia said he had little hope that deliveries would be restored any time soon.

“That’s practically impossible,” Robert Fico told reporters in Bratislava.

AP