KIEV, July 3 – There are no grounds for changes in the settlement of the gas issue between Ukraine and Russia, and in the near term this will be limited to information confrontations between the sides, according to Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies.

"In fact, in June we saw the latest round of information confrontation on gas issues between the officials of Ukraine and Russia. This isn't a new trend," he said at a press conference in Kiev on July 2, 2012.