Ukraine-EU-Russia gas talks start in Brussels today

Today, September 12, trilateral negotiations on natural gas issues involving Ukraine, the EU and Russia at the expert level will begin in Brussels.

"Negotiations start on September 12, in the afternoon," the representative of the European Commission, Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, said, TASS reported.

As reported, the European Union, Ukraine and Russia agreed to work out a new contract for transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to EU countries.

This political decision was reached on July 17 in Berlin, after the first round of trilateral gas talks with the participation of Vice-President of the European Commission for Energy Union Maros Sevcovic, energy minister of Russia Alexander Novak, foreign minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, CEO of Russia’s Gazprom Alexey Miller and CEO of Ukraine’s Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev.

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