Ukraine's foreign minister said on Saturday the ex-Soviet state is not "at war" with Russia over natural gas supplies and transits to Europe.
"There is no gas war, we have made the latest gas payment and demonstrated Ukraine's reliability [as a transit nation]," Petro Poroshenko told an international security conference in Munich.
Russia and Ukraine, which transits some 80% of Russia's EU-bound gas, has had a series of pricing and debt disputes in recent years which led to brief cutoffs of supplies that affected consumers in the European Union.
The latest dispute in January 2009 was resolved when the neighbors signed deals later that month under which they switched to free market prices for gas supplies and transit fees as of 2010, abandoning a long-time discounted pricing practice.
MUNICH, February 6 (RIA Novosti)
