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Moscow, Kyiv End Russian Gas Transit To Europe Via Ukraine

Russia's Gazprom has supplied gas to Europe via pipelines crossing Ukraine for decades (Credit: AFP)

Russia's gas transit to Europe via Ukraine stopped on Wednesday, Moscow and Kyiv said, ending a decades-long arrangement and marking the latest casualty of the war between the neighbours.

Russian gas has been supplied to Europe via pipelines crossing Ukraine since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 in an arrangement that earned revenues for Moscow from the gas and for Kyiv from the transit fees.

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