The Slovakian Prime Minister has threatened Kyiv with a “serious conflict” if they stop the supply of Russian gas running through Ukraine to Slovakia.
The Hungarian MOL Group announced an agreement in September this year they have reached an agreement with Moscow for Russian oil suppliers and pipeline operators to make sure it flows via the Druzhba pipeline through Belarus, then Ukraine to Hungary and 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?”
Last week Slovakia held a series of “extremely intensive negotiations at different levels and in different countries” which will start this week in securing gas supplies from Russia, which means the gas would go through Ukraine and EU member states, Slovakia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Denisa Sakova said.
