Moscow mission: for Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian PM heads to Moscow
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will travel to Moscow today for last-ditch talks to resolve a gas row, Ukraine's embassy was quoted as saying.
"The embassy confirms that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is coming to Moscow on Wednesday," Russia’s Interfax agency quoted an embassy official as saying.
Russia has said it will cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on 1 January if a dispute over arrears and prices for next year is not settled.
Earlier, Ukrainian state energy company naftogaz had said it had started paying off outstanding debts. However, Russian gas export Monopoly Gazprom denied it had received any payments, Reuters reported.