“It will be very soon, we are close to completion,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

As the diplomat emphasized in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, the State Department constantly talks with Ukrainian colleagues and thinks about how to ensure that Kiev receives "the support necessary to build a better energy future."

Earlier, the deputy official representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Germany, Martina Fitz, said that negotiations with Washington on the gas pipeline continue, some progress has been made, but so far Berlin has nothing to report on this topic.

Western media wrote that Washington and Berlin may soon announce an agreement on Nord Stream 2.