The labyrinth of the war in Ukraine and the intersection of Russian gas with Slovakian electricity; Zelensky attacked Fico!
report Mehr News Agency quoted by Reuters, at the same time as the dispute between Kiev and Bratislava over the transfer of Russian gas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico to open a new front. accused against Kiev.
Russian gas is transported through Ukraine to several European countries, including Slovakia, but the last gas transmission contract, which was signed before Moscow’s attack on Kiev, expires this year. It expires in 2018 and it is not expected that Kyiv will extend it.
Fico, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, said that if Ukraine decides to stop gas transfers from January 1, 2025, Slovakia will also consider countermeasures, including stopping power transmission.
Zelensky, in response to Fico’s threat, wrote on the “X” social network: “It seems that Putin ordered Fico to launch the second energy front against Ukraine.” And open it at the cost of the interests of the Slovak people.
Slovakia wants to preserve the transmission of Russian gas to this country through Ukraine and emphasizes that alternative routes increase the price and damage the internal transmission operations of this country and to It causes a loss of 500 million euros.
Ukraine has said that it will not sign a new gas transfer contract with Moscow due to the ongoing Russian attack on the country in February 2022.
Since the beginning of Russia’s attack and Ukraine’s attack on the country’s energy infrastructure and power grid, Kiev has been forced to import electricity from neighboring countries. In another part of this message, Zelensky wrote that Slovakia now supplies 19% of Ukraine’s electricity imports, and that Ukraine is cooperating with its neighbors in the European Union to strengthen electricity supply.
He added: Slovakia is a member of the European “single” energy market and FICO must respect its common rules. Stopping the export of electricity to Ukraine deprives Slovakia of 200 million dollars annually.
