Ukraine is a transit route for shipping Russian gas to

European Union leaders will call for greater efforts to cut reliance on imported gas at a Brussels summit next week, a draft document shows, underlining their concern about strained relations with dominant energy supplier Russia over Ukraine.
    Ukraine is a transit route for shipping Russian gas to the EU, which relies on Russia for about a third of its supplies.
    Past supply disruption because of pricing disputes between Moscow and Kiev had already motivated EU leaders to seek alternatives to Russian gas, but Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region has increased the EU’s focus on diversifying.