"Here's what you say - we are meeting with Waldersee (special representative of the German government for gas transit through Ukraine. -

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) ... just we are consulting on this situation," RIA Novosti quoted Novak as saying.

According to him, it is not yet worthwhile to transfer these negotiations to a public plane.

The head of the Bundestag Committee on Economics and Energy Klaus Ernst previously announced Moscow's compliance with contracts for gas supplies to Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that an increase in supplies via the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could ease tensions on the European gas market.