The Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has arrived in Moscow and met Vladimir Putin to debate Russian fuel transiting by way of Ukraine to Slovakia.
Fico mentioned it’s “unacceptable” that President Volodymyr Zelensky is threatening the manufacturing of electrical energy for his or her nuclear energy vegetation in Slovakia.
Fico, who’s pro-Putin, held talks with the Russian dictator within the Kremlin which is “a response” to Zelensky as he’s refusing to permit Russian fuel to transit by way of Ukraine.
Zelensky mentioned, “We is not going to have interaction in extending the transit of Russian fuel. We is not going to give (Russia) the chance to earn extra billions on our blood.”
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Final week Fico threatened Kyiv with a “severe battle” in the event that they cease the provision of Russian fuel operating by way of Ukraine to Slovakia.
On Thursday President Volodymyr Zelensky instructed Slovakia that Ukraine is not going to become involved with permitting Russian fuel to run by way of his nation.
Zelensky additionally instructed Fico that if the fuel will not be Russian and no funds are going to Moscow and if the fuel is from one other nation, then he would contemplate this.
Robert Fico warned on Friday, “If Zelenskyy doesn’t let our fuel by way of, a severe battle might come up. Why ought to it solely go from us there? Why can’t there be some type of solidarity in direction of us?”
In the course of the assembly with Putin Fico mentioned, “With such positions, (Zelensky) is financially damaging Slovakia and threatening the manufacturing of electrical energy in nuclear energy vegetation in Slovakia, which is unacceptable.”
Hungary has additionally joined the struggle on Russian fuel and are “making an attempt to trick” Kyiv into permitting the provides transit by way of Ukraine.
The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who can be pro-Putin, is suggesting that when they’ve purchased the fuel it’s now not Russian, however Hungarian so it should allowed to move by way of the pipelines in Ukraine.
Reuters reviews that Orban mentioned, “We at the moment are making an attempt the trick … that what if the fuel, by the point it enters the territory of Ukraine, would now not be Russian however can be already within the possession of the consumers.
So the fuel that enters Ukraine would now not be Russian fuel however it could be Hungarian fuel.
Fico and Putin mentioned the struggle in Ukraine and relations between Bratislava and Moscow, which comes because the Slovakian Prime Minister mentioned final week that he hopes Bratislava might contemplate “reciprocal measures” if Ukraine does cease all Russian fuel operating the nation.
