Ukraine’s increasingly desperate efforts to make progress on a possible deal to use Slovakia’s natural gas pipeline for reverse deliveries have so far failed despite a direct appeal to EU officials. Energy Minister Yuri Prodan was quoted in Ukrainian media as saying that talks in Brussels with Slovakian and EU officials revealed what many had feared - that Slovakia’s pipeline operator, Eustream, has contractual obligations to Gazprom that prevent it from agreeing on reverse gas supplies to Ukraine.
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