BUCHAREST, Jan. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- A Russian-Ukrainian natural gas price row has resulted in a drop of five million cubic meters of gas supplies to Romania per day, but unusually warm winter temperatures have counteracted the impact, Romanian Economy Minister Codrut Seres said Monday.

    "We are dealing with a fall of five million cubic meters a day from the amount of gas imported by Romania from Russia," Seres told the Realitatea TV station.

    Romania is a heavy importer of Russian natural gas but Seres said the drop did not affect the consumers much as the country was experiencing unusually warm winter days.

    Russian gas giant Gazprom cut down natural gas supplies to Ukraine on Sunday after Kiev shrugged off Moscow's demand to more than quadruple the gas price.

    Gazprom provides about half the gas consumed in the European Union (EU) and some 80 percent of that amount is sent through pipelines that cross Ukraine. Enditem