KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine, Russia and the EU struck a monitoring agreement on Sunday that should enable the resumption of Russian supplies to Europe, large parts of which have been plunged into a mid-winter energy crisis. A worker checks on gas cylinders for domestic consumers at a filling station in the town of Brovary, some 20 km northwest of Kiev January 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin/Files) Officials said monitors would begin work within hours to oversee gas flows via Ukraine to Europe, cut off last week amid a price dispute between Kiev and Moscow. "We were able to reach a...
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