Konstantin Grishchenko, Oleg Dubina, Yury Prodan, Yuliya Timoshenko and Vladimir Putin

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Yurii Prodan, right, Ukraine's ambassador to Russia Konstantin Grishchenko, third right, Naftogaz chairman Oleg Dubina, fourth right, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, during their meeting in Moscow, January 17, 2009. The prime ministers of Ukraine and Russia said that an understanding was reached on resuming gas transit to European consumers in the near future. Yulia Tymoshenko noted that the instructions where given to the Gazprom and Naftogaz executives to prepere the entire package of documents by Monday. All flows of gas transit to Europe will be re-started after the signing of all documents. Ukraine will be granted a 20-percent discount in 2009 under condition of preserving a reduced price on pumping Russian gas to European consumers via Ukraine. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN