“Forming the price of natural gas for the next year, 2023… The work here should be completed by August 1, 2022, with the signing of the relevant documents,” RIA Novosti quoted Karankevich as saying in an interview with Belarus 1 TV channel.

According to him, an action plan was prepared to form a common gas market.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that payments for gas in rubles with Minsk would minimize the negative impact of sanctions on Belarus as well.