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“Halting fuel transit through Ukraine can have a drastic influence on us all within the EU — however not on the Russian Federation,” Slovak Prime Minister Fico mentioned in a New Year’s tackle posted on social media.
Fico — who’s pleasant with Russian President Vladimir Putin, assembly him in Moscow in a shock go to over the Christmas holidays to debate fuel provides — has beforehand argued that the top of the deal will drive up prices for the EU and hit the bloc’s competitiveness, in addition to growing vitality costs in Slovakia.
He has additionally threatened to take “reciprocal measures” towards Ukraine if it doesn’t lengthen the association, together with stopping electrical energy exports to the nation because it faces a harsh winter.
Ukraine has dismissed the warning and supplied its personal home fuel manufacturing as a substitute for its neighbors. Poland mentioned it is able to export extra electrical energy to Ukraine if Fico follows by means of on his risk.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski on Wednesday hailed the top of the Russian fuel deal as a “victory” for Kyiv.
“Putin spent billions constructing Nordstream to bypass Ukraine and blackmail Eastern Europe with the specter of chopping off fuel provides. Today Ukraine minimize off his means to export fuel direct to the EU,” he posted on X.
