BERLIN/KYIV, July 17 – A group of high-level experts will meet in the middle of September 2018 to discuss gas transit shipments via Ukraine after 2019, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic has said.

"This has been a long but a productive day. I am pleased to announce that today, we have managed to establish a trilateral process with Russia and Ukraine. In other words, we have a joint agreement that today's meeting was not a one-off exercise," he said after the trilateral talks of the EU, Ukraine and Russia in Berlin on Tuesday, July 17, adding that consensus was reached to continue talks this autumn.