“Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that due to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Slovakia is facing a “gas crisis”. Source: Fico at a press conference in Bratislava on Friday, December 20, “European Truth” with reference to Reuters Details: The day before at the European Union summit, Fico raised the issue of the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine, which the latter refused to continue after the end of 2024.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that due to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Slovakia is facing a “gas crisis”.
Source: Fico at a press conference in Bratislava on Friday, December 20, “European Truth” with reference to Reuters
Details: The day before, at the summit of the European Union, Fico raised the issue of the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine, which the latter refused to continue after the end of 2024.
“We are clearly facing a gas crisis thanks to President Zelensky,” the prime minister of Slovakia said at the beginning of the press conference, without clarifying what he meant.
Later, he said that he does not rule out that Slovakia will have to “think about retaliatory measures” in the event of a lack of transit of Russian gas.
The day before, as the Slovak mass media reported, Fico talked about the conversation with Zelensky regarding the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine.
“We have differences on the issue of gas transit through Ukraine. I asked him if he would be ready to transit gas other than Russian,” said the head of the Slovak government.
According to him, Zelensky ruled out the possibility that Ukraine can transit any gas. “He asked if we could imagine paying for gas that finances the war,” Fizo described the conversation.
He also added that he discussed this issue separately with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the summit and warned them that if Kyiv stops gas transit, it will become more expensive.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal confirmed in a conversation with the Prime Minister of Slovakia this week that Kyiv rules out the extension of the transit agreement with Gazprom, but noted that Ukraine is not against transporting gas through its GTS, if it is not from Russia.
The day before, Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine is not considering renewing the agreement with Gazprom on the transit of Russian gas to Europe, and also made it clear that Kyiv will not agree to pump Russian gas under the guise of Azerbaijani gas.