The European Union should be open to resuming Russian natural gas imports in the future if a peace deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine, an Austrian official said, as Brussels readies a proposal to ban Russian imports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Austria in his first trip to the European Union member country since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country in 2022.

Austria is famously neutral and Vienna has come under heavy criticism since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war for maintaining ties with Moscow.