Slovak PM allegedly visits Putin in Moscow
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (photo: Getty Images)
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will travel to Moscow on Monday. He will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid Ukraine's plans not to continue transiting Russian gas to the EU, states Slovak President Aleksandar Vučić.
“As I have learned unofficially, and when I say unofficially, as I said about the sanctions against NIS, it is quite reliable: on Monday, Robert Fico will go to Putin as the leader of an EU country,” he said on TV Happy.
Stopping the transit of Russian gas to the EU
Yesterday, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine would stop transiting Russian gas at 7 a.m. on January 1, 2025. At this point, the five-year contract will expire.
A day earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine would not continue transiting Russian gas to European countries. He added that only transit of non-Russian gas is possible.
Robert Fico, for his part, threatened that Slovakia could consider retaliatory measures against Ukraine if the country does not transit gas from Russia to Europe. According to him, he was stunned by Zelenskyy's refusal to allow transit after the two leaders had a conversation at the summit in Brussels.
