“Gas transit through Ukraine will be continued. To this end, at least a fundamental unity of Ukraine and Russia has been achieved, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Meuse said Germany "welcomes this rapprochement and hopes that negotiations on this basis can now be brought to a successful conclusion."

Earlier, the Vice President of the European Commission Marosh Shefchovich said that a fundamental agreement on gas transit was reached at the trilateral negotiations in Berlin between the EC, Russia and Ukraine.