Talks aimed at ensuring Russian natural gas deliveries to Ukraine this winter are being held with the European Union in Brussels today as fighting continues in Ukraine’s war-torn east in defiance of a six week-old truce. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger , Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and his Ukrainian counterpart Yuri Prodan are attending the talks that are supposed to end at 2 p.m. yet may take longer than planned, officials said. The standoff between the two former Soviet republics is coming to a head four months after Russia halted gas shipments over a pricing and debt dispute as a separatist insurrection raged in eastern Ukraine. The EU, which depends on Russian fuel piped across Ukraine for about 15 percent of its needs, has been seeking […]