Ukraine satisfied with gas talks, but needs no ‘excess gas’ | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Friday that he was mostly satisfied with his visit to Russia and that Ukraine will only buy as much Russian gas as it needs.
Azarov met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a government residence near Moscow on Thursday amid pledges to ‘reset’ Russia-Ukraine ties, badly damaged by the policies of West-leaning former president Viktor Yushchenko.
While Putin decried labeling Russia-Ukraine gas contracts as ‘unfair’ or ‘unbeneficial,’ he said that he had ‘found a compromise’ with Azarov in ‘switching over to market price formation – both in gas and transit prices.’
Earlier on Thursday, Azarov met with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, who said that gas prices would depend on the volume of purchases.”