“I hope that we can advance as far as possible during our next trilateral meeting in October. It is very difficult to predict, but I think that we now have an impetus, and we at the European Commission will do everything possible to preserve it and ensure that we have an agreement by the end of the year, ”RIA Novosti Shefchovich quotes.

Earlier, Ukrainian political scientist and economist Alexander Dudchak, in an interview with the NSN, commented on the message that Naftogaz intends to demand $ 11-14 billion as “compensation” if Gazprom insists on concluding a new gas transit contract on the same terms.