Russian and Ukrainian proposals concerning the prospective gas agreements will be discussed and integrated next week, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said.

"Next week, the commission is still going to coordinate and integrate various propositions from the Russian and Ukrainian sides regarding the protocol, and the meeting will probably take place in a week," the minister told reporters in Kyiv on Monday.

He added that the European Commission was developing materials with regard to a Ukraine-Russia gas compromise.

A joint press release by European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and his Ukrainian counterpart Prodan said that the venue and date of tripartite gas talks in the EU-Russia-Ukraine format was being discussed.

"Following the proposed Protocol in Berlin on September 26, the process for agreement of the terms of the Protocol is currently ongoing. The exact day and place for the next negotiations will be set next week," reads the statement by the parties published by the European Commission on October 3.