Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he had doubts about Ukraine`s ability to pay for Russian gas supplies and proposed the European Union help Kyiv get a syndicated loan, according to the President`s press-office.
"We have doubts about Ukraine`s ability to pay," Medvedev told reporters at a summit with the European Union in the city of Khabarovsk, near the border with China.
Medvedev said that, if Ukraine needed money, then the European Union and Russia could help Kyiv get a syndicated loan to pay for energy supplies.
"If we are talking about credits then let us help syndicate the corresponding money for the Ukrainian state. But this should not be only Russia doing this. At the end of the day, it is not us who have problems with paying," Medvedev said.
A Russian government source said on Thursday that Russia and Ukraine were on the verge of a new gas dispute.
