MOSCOW/MILAN (Reuters) - Russian energy producer Gazprom is preparing to offer to sell more natural gas to Europe at spot prices to ensure European companies' support for a planned pipeline bypassing Ukraine, industry sources say.
Worried that conflict-ridden Ukraine is not a reliable transit route, the state-run company signed a shareholders' agreement with five European firms last month to build the Nord Stream II pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany.
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