“I can say that the preliminary meeting, which took place on Monday (October 21st. - RT ) in Brussels, showed that there are opportunities for moving forward,” TASS quoted him as saying.
At the same time, the Permanent Representative of Russia noted that the effectiveness of the consultations could be assessed after the October 28 gas talks.
Earlier, delegates from Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission met in Brussels to prepare for trilateral gas consultations.
Igor Yushkov, a leading analyst at the Financial University under the Government of Russia, an expert at the National Energy Security Fund, in an interview with the FAN, praised the statement made by the head of Naftogaz Andrei Kobolev about the lack of sense in extending the contract with Gazprom under existing conditions.