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Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Russia on a provisional price for gas deliveries during the coming winter months.
Poroshenko said the deal was agreed at talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Milan on Friday, and he hoped it would end the gas dispute between the two countries.
"On the basis of consultations, I can say that Ukraine will have the gas, will have heating," Poroshenko said on Ukrainian television late on Saturday.
Progress towards settling the gas row has raised hopes of an EU-backed resolution of the broader conflict embroiling Moscow and Kiev over the insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
Gazprom cut deliveries to Ukraine in June after Kiev disputed a price increase by Moscow.
But Poroshenko said that a price had now been agreed by both sides and that Russia had "accepted" Ukraine's position.
The agreed price was US$385 per 1,000 cubic metres, Poroshenko said, down from US$485.
Poroshenko met Putin three times in the space of 10 hours in Milan on Friday, twice in the company of various European Union leaders then, finally, in their first private meeting since late August.

Following the meeting, Poroshenko said he hoped a deal could be done at or before talks in Brussels tomorrow.
"Before October 21, we hope to find a solution for the energy question," he said.
Putin also implied a deal was close and said there had been "progress" and "agreement on the conditions for the resumption of deliveries of gas, at least in the winter period".
The Russian leader also urged EU governments to help finalise the complex funding package required for it to happen.
EU-brokered talks with Ukraine and Russia have produced a draft accord under which cash-strapped Kiev would pay US$3.1 billion in unpaid bills to Moscow by the end of October, with a new contract to cover subsequent deliveries.
Putin had hinted that gas supplies to Europe could be cut if no agreement was reached.
Russia accounts for around one-third of the EU's consumption, half of which transits via Ukraine, and previous disruptions, in 2006 and 2009, led to sharp spikes in prices.
 

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Kiev and the West have previously claimed the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight was blown out of the sky in July by separatist fighters using a missile supplied by Russia - charges denied by Moscow.
But the head of Germany's BND foreign spy agency Gerhard Schindler said intelligence indicated rebels had captured a BUK system from a Ukrainian base and fired a missile that exploded next to the plane.


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'We will have heating', Poroshenko says as he and Putin agree on provisional price for supply


Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Russia on a provisional price for gas deliveries during the coming winter months.


Ukraine’s Poroshenko says winter gas price deal agreed with Russia

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'We will have heating', Poroshenko says as he and Putin agree on provisional price for supply