. Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic had invited Russian Federation and Ukraine to Brussels in January for the next round of trilateral gas talks at the political level. The Commissioner also expects to participate in a meeting of commercial organizations. before the head of the energy Ministry of Russia Alexander Novak said that the tripartite dialogues gas at Ministerial level will be held in the 2nd part of January after the meeting at the level of experts. Ukraine stopped buying gas from Russia in November 2015 and then did not use Russian fuel in preparation for the heating season by pumping into storage gas purchased on the reverse in the European Union. The current contract for gas transit from Russia through Ukraine ends in late 2019. The previous trilateral dialogue on transit pumping gas between Russia, the European Commission and Ukraine took place on 17 July in Berlin. in September experts of the three parties evaluated the EU's demand for gas over the next 10 years, and the impact of European law on future gas transit from Russia through Ukraine and norms of the Ukrainian law. <span style="color:darkgray