Russian state natural-gas company PAO Gazprom resumed deliveries to Ukraine on Monday, after halting exports in July, reducing the risk of disruption to supplies to the rest of Europe this winter. Deliveries were resumed after Ukraine paid $234 million of a total $500 million prepayment expected for gas in October, Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller said. Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn confirmed to Interfax news agency that deliveries had resumed early on Monday. Ukraine and Russia finalized, but didn’t yet sign, a preliminary gas agreement last month, which would bring down the cost of Russian gas for Ukraine to that paid by neighboring European Union countries until March. In return, Ukraine promised to ensure that Russia can ship gas to the EU without interruptions and to pump 2 billion cubic meters of gas into underground storage facilities over the next month. The European Union has worked to bring […]