Putin: Written Deal Needed To Renew Gas Supplies -- Yahoo News/APNOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted Saturday that a written agreement on the deployment of EU monitors to Ukraine must be signed before Russia resumes gas shipments to a freezing Europe.
Putin told Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek that the deal must spell out details of the monitoring team's operation. Topolanek, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, met with Putin after holding talks in Ukraine on Friday night.
The EU experts arrived in Ukraine on Friday prepared to monitor the flow of gas and act as referees in a bitter economic battle between the two former Soviet states.
But there were no gas shipments for EU monitors to track Saturday, as Russian and Ukrainian continued bickering over details of the monitoring pact.
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