PARIS—French energy company TotalEnergies SE is coming under pressure from Ukraine’s government to waive a dividend worth hundreds of millions of dollars from a Russian natural-gas giant as Europe braces for a winter without ample supplies of the fuel.
Oleg Ustenko and Mykhailo Podolyak—top advisers to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—sent a letter to TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné on Thursday asking what he plans to do with the $440 million dividend the firm stands to reap from its 19% stake in PAO Novatek.
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