Essen, Germany - Slovakia, which has been hard hit by the Russian-Ukrainian gas delivery crisis has found a white knight in the form of Germany's RWE Power, which has promised Saturday to make gas deliveries.

The RWE deliveries are to begin Sunday morning with an increase of deliveries to begin on Tuesday, the company based in the western German city of Essen said.

The company has been working since Thursday to make possible a west-to-east flow of gas, something that has never been done before, reported the company.

The deliveries will come out of RWE's own stockpiles. The plan was agreed to Saturday in Prague at a meeting between the prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia and a representative of the RWE affiliate Transgas. dpa