Maria Knyazeva. The crisis in Ukraine risks to deliver gas and oil to the European Union " materialized ", said the head of the international monetary Fund Christine Lagarde on Thursday at a press conference in Luxembourg.

" Ukrainian (geopolitical risk has materialized. The lack of stability will have an impact on neighbouring countries, both from a position of net stability, and from the perspective of energy supply and forecasts of the supply, " she replied to the question about the risks to the Outlook for the Eurozone economy, connected with the crisis in Ukraine.

" Gazprom " on the first day of the week after long and fruitless negotiations on gas price and repayment of debts transferred to Ukraine in advance for deliveries of " blue fuel ", and they were reduced to zero. In response Kiev said about the intention to seriously increase reverse gas supplies from Europe. Ukraine also has assured, that will try to provide the reliability and continuity of gas transit from Russia to the European Union, as long as there is a technological possibility.

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