Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Slovakia that Russia’s Gazprom would discover alternative routes to ship contracted gasoline to Slovakia after the finish of transit by means of Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico mentioned on Friday (Jan 10).
Fico met Putin in Moscow on Dec. 22 to debate gasoline and the warfare in Ukraine after Kyiv determined to not enable Russian gasoline flows by means of Ukrainian territory from Jan 1.
Ukraine, which has grappled with a full-scale Russian invasion for almost three years, refused to resume a transit cope with Russia because it seeks to chop revenues going to Moscow to fund the warfare.
Fico has threatened to take retaliatory measures towards Kyiv for the transit halt as Slovakia wished to proceed receiving Russian gasoline by means of Ukraine to maintain prices down and preserve incomes transit nation income from onward gasoline shipments to Europe.
“I spoke to Putin a couple of contract between us and Gazprom, which says that they must by some means ship the gasoline to us,” Fico advised a parliamentary committee.
“We’re capable of push one thing by means of the southern move (route by means of Türkiye), however thus far we now have storage, Slovak consumption is secured.”
Fico mentioned Putin assured that Russia would meets its obligations, though capability within the TurkStream pipeline and connecting route taking Russian gasoline by means of Türkiye to Europe was restricted.
“President Putin assured that they’ll honour their commitments,” Fico mentioned.
