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Russian energy giant Gazprom halted on Wednesday gas supplies to Ukraine for transit to Europe. 
Russia will continue its efforts in the UN Security Council and across the Middle East to bring about a settlement to the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. 
Ukraine has stolen more than 86 million cubic meters of gas from Gazprom since the start of the year, the Russian energy giant said on Wednesday, adding that it had not shut off supplies to Europe via Ukraine. 
A sailor was killed in a fire on board the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier anchored off Turkey late on Tuesday, the Russian Navy commander said on Wednesday. 
As a complete shutoff in Russian gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine deepened supply problems across the continent on Wednesday, the European Union called for transfers to resume. 
Two days of UN Security Council discussions on Gaza could end on Wednesday with a resolution or non-binding presidential statement, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovlev said. 
A sailor was killed in a fire on board the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier off Turkey late on Tuesday, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Wednesday. 
Four people, including a child, died in a fire in a 19th-century mansion in central Moscow on Wednesday, a spokesman for the city's emergencies department said. 
Ukraine on Wednesday shut off the fourth and final pipeline pumping Russian gas to Europe, Gazprom deputy head Alexander Medvedev said. 



