The Kiev regime’s resolution to close down the transit of Russian fuel to Europe by means of Ukrainian territory has enraged its former allies to various levels.
Within the case of Slovakia, this has become an open battle that will find yourself hurting Kiev’s ambitions to hitch the European Union.
Ukrainska Pravda reported:
“Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has harshly criticized Ukraine as an unreliable companion and mentioned he was bored with President Volodymyr Zelensky travelling round Europe ‘begging’ and ‘blackmailing others’.”
PM Fico, in a speech to parliament on Friday (10), blasted Ukrainian management a lot tougher than earlier than.
Fico defined to MPs the explanations for his assembly with Russian chief Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and supplied details about his subsequent steps relating to the termination of Russian fuel transit by means of Ukraine.
“Fico mentioned that two options to the problem of fuel transit from Ukraine to Slovakia had been ready, which Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal had allegedly agreed upon.
Considered one of them was imagined to be an settlement between Russia and Azerbaijan permitting Slovakia to obtain Azerbaijani fuel, however Fico says that Volodymyr Zelensky disrupted this settlement. The second possibility was a proposal for SPP’s mother or father firm to arrange a subsidiary on the Russian-Ukrainian border in order that Slovak fuel may very well be transported to Slovakia through Ukraine.”
Fico mentioned Zelensky is ‘unreliable’, including that he was ‘fed up with him’.
“He [Zelensky] goes round Europe, simply begging and blackmailing others, asking for cash. It simply has to cease.”
The Prime Minister declared that Russia has been a ‘dependable companion’ within the matter of vitality provides.
“Russia has by no means deceived us, in contrast to Ukraine. I bear in mind the state of affairs in 2009 after I was in Ukraine and requested Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko to provide us some fuel from the reservoirs within the western a part of Ukraine, and I used to be informed to go to hell. These are typical Ukrainians.”
Throughout the tackle to parliament, Fico threatened a veto of EU choices on Ukraine.
“Zelensky goes round Europe simply begging and blackmailing; this has to cease. Do you suppose the Germans will ship us fuel!?”
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fairly fed up with Zelensky. pic.twitter.com/IzM0ViI0lZ
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) January 11, 2025
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