(Euronews) Both Russian and Ukrainian governments say Moscow and Kyiv have not signed an agreement when the two countries’ presidents met on Friday.
The Kremlin says no deal was agreed on reducing Russian gas prices, and the two leaders did not discuss Ukraine’s possible membership of a customs union.
The unscheduled meeting took place in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych discussed “cooperation in energy”, but that “no final agreement” had been reached.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a Ukrainian opposition leader allied to the jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, had warned earlier that an accord with Russia would be a “political and economic catastrophe”.
There has been concern in European circles since President Yanukovych pulled Ukraine out of a planned deal with the EU.
A delegation of centre-right members of the European Parliament is visiting Kyiv.
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