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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic are maintaining constant communication and there are no disagreements between them, presidential foreign policy adviser Ivan Mrkic has said.

"Nikolić and Vučić pursue same policy" - adviser

BERN -- President Tomislav Nikolić and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić "are maintaining constant communication and there are no disagreements between them."

This is what Nikolić's foreign policy adviser and former foreign minister Ivan Mrkić told the daily Danas.

Russia has proposed a discount of USD 100 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas to Ukraine, but Kiev has said it will reject the offer.

Russia and Ukraine began fresh EU-brokered gas supply talks June 11, with Moscow extending a cut-off deadline to next week in the latest signs the worst East-West crisis in years may be easing.

NATO will send two surveillance ships to the Black Sea in the next few days to conduct radio-electronic reconnaissance of the military objects of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Ukraine’s new president June 10 ordered the creation of humanitarian corridors in the separatist east that could save civilians and advance his plan to end nearly two months of fighting by the end of the week.

Three-party gas negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union will continue on Tuesday in Brussels after the sides failed to reach an agreement on Monday.

The main issues are Ukraine's gas debt and the future prices. Gazprom has warned that if Kiev doesn't repay its USD 5.2B debt, it can stop the delivery.

From Financial Times

Bulgaria's prime minister has halted work on a new Russian-led pipeline that would provide a route around Ukraine for Russian gas into Europe, dealing a setback to Kremlin efforts to strengthen its hold on EU energy supplies.

The Ukrainian law enforces have resumed artillery strikes on Slaviansk and adjoining settlements on Monday morning, according to international media reports.

Moscow, Kiev and Brussels will restart talks on Russian gas supplies today to try to resolve a dispute over price, a Russian energy ministry official said June 8.