Image: Bar chart showing EU countries' dependency on gas imports from Russia. Russia and the EU signed an accord Saturday to monitor Russian gas shipments to Europe, piling pressure on transit country Ukraine to accept the deal that would resume supply to gas-starved countries. (AFP/Graphic)Russia, Ukraine Sign Deal To Resume Gas Supply To Europe -- Yahoo News/AFP
KIEV (AFP) – Russia and Ukraine have signed an accord on natural gas transit allowing resumption of Russian supply to Europe as early as Sunday and an end to one of Europe's worst energy crises, officials said.
"We signed the protocol today so that Ukraine has nothing to answer for," Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told journalists early Sunday after emergency overnight talks with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.
The accord, setting out terms for placing international monitors at metering stations on Ukraine's gas pipeline network to verify gas transit volumes, was signed Saturday by Russia after Topolanek met Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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