A dispute between Slovakia and Ukraine over Russian natural gas transit has been escalating.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates.
On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to supply Central Europe with Russian natural gas.
Slovakia had been the main entry point and the country now stands to lose millions of euros in transit fees.
The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) estimated last month that there were 130,530 Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia out of 6,813,900 globally.
Fico - who in December made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin - described Kyiv’s move as “sabotage”.
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Why not instead build some solar farms? Or a nuclear reactor? Or some windmills? Slovakia had 3 years to do this. This was a planned thing.
This isn’t about Slovakia’s own gas supply. The article give some hints regarding Fico’s motivations.