BRUSSELS, Sept. 21 – It will be possible to deliver gas from Europe to Ukraine by mid-2014, European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger said.

In an interview with Ukrainian journalists in Brussels on Friday, after a meeting with Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko, Oettinger said that there were technical possibilities for reversing the gas supplies on the border between Ukraine and Slovakia, which is a member of the EU.

"We need some time (to settle technical issues of the deliveries), but we think that the reverse supplies may be ready by mid-2014," he said.