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Moscow is unable to come to the aid of Kiev for its monthly gas payments and will look to the international monetary regime, the Russian premier said. The disruption left Russia's European customers in the cold for weeks as 80 percent of all Russian gas bound for Europe travels through Soviet-era pipelines traveling through Ukrainian territory.A dispute between Moscow and Kiev over gas contracts and arrears culminated in January gas disruptions from energy giant Gazprom to Ukraine.

Moscow can’t help Ukraine with gas debt