The Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has arrived in Moscow and met Vladimir Putin to discuss Russian gas transiting through Ukraine to Slovakia.
Fico said it is “unacceptable” that President Volodymyr Zelensky is threatening the production of electricity for their nuclear power plants in Slovakia.
Fico, who is pro-Putin, held talks with the Russian dictator in the Kremlin which is “a response” to Zelensky as he is refusing to allow Russian gas to transit through Ukraine.
Zelensky said, “We will not engage in extending the transit of Russian gas. We will not give (Russia) the opportunity to earn additional billions on our blood.”
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Last week Fico threatened Kyiv with a “serious conflict” if they stop the supply of Russian gas running through Ukraine to Slovakia.
On Thursday President Volodymyr Zelensky told Slovakia that Ukraine will not get involved with allowing Russian gas to run through his country.
Zelensky also told Fico that if the gas is not Russian and no payments are going to Moscow and if the gas is from another country, then he would consider this.
Robert Fico warned on Friday, “If Zelenskyy does not let our gas through, a serious conflict could arise. Why should it only go from us there? Why can’t there be some kind of solidarity towards us?”
During the meeting with Putin Fico said, “With such positions, (Zelensky) is financially damaging Slovakia and threatening the production of electricity in nuclear power plants in Slovakia, which is unacceptable.”
Hungary has also joined the war on Russian gas and are “trying to trick” Kyiv into allowing the supplies transit through Ukraine.
The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is also pro-Putin, is suggesting that once they have bought the gas it is no longer Russian, but Hungarian so it must allowed to pass through the pipelines in Ukraine.
Reuters reports that Orban said, “We are now trying the trick … that what if the gas, by the time it enters the territory of Ukraine, would no longer be Russian but would be already in the ownership of the buyers.
So the gas that enters Ukraine would no longer be Russian gas but it would be Hungarian gas.
Fico and Putin discussed the war in Ukraine and relations between Bratislava and Moscow, which comes as the Slovakian Prime Minister said last week that he hopes Bratislava could consider “reciprocal measures” if Ukraine does stop all Russian gas running the country.
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