Russia`s Gazprom does not expect a quick breakthrough in talks with Ukraine over gas debts, Gazprom`s spokesman said on Monday as a deadline for reducing supplies drew closer, according to Reuters.

"The pace of talks we are seeing at the moment shows that it is difficult to expect that all the problems would be settled today and that all differences would be removed," Sergei Kupriyanov told Ekho Moskvy radio station.

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