BRUSSELS: European Union (EU)-brokered talks to resolve a bitter gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday appeared stalled as Moscow demanded that Brussels and Kiev first agree on how Ukraine will pay its huge bill to Moscow.

“The European Commission must reach an agreement with Ukraine over the question of financing,” Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kuprianov told Agence France-Presse in Moscow.

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