Gazprom accused Ukraine of using more Russian gas than agreed on Monday.
Gazprom?s export chief Alexander Medvedev said Ukraine should stop consuming gas above levels agreed with Russia earlier this year.
?They are getting less than they?d like, but the amounts are in full compliance with the contracts,? a Gazprom spokesman, Sergei Kupriyanov was quoted by Bloomberg as saying.
Gazprom said it was still shipping seven percent more gas to Europe than it was obliged to send.
Eni, the largest Italian gas company, said imports from Russia slid 5.4 percent in a 24-hour period that ended on Wednesday morning. Gazprom reduced exports to Hungary by 20 percent on Wednesday, said Sandor Kantor, a spokesman for the energy company Mol in Budapest.
