The Kiev regime’s resolution to close down the transit of Russian gasoline to Europe by means of Ukrainian territory has enraged its former allies to diverse levels.
Within the case of Slovakia, this has was an open battle which will find yourself hurting Kiev’s ambitions to affix the European Union.
Ukrainska Pravda reported:
“Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has harshly criticized Ukraine as an unreliable accomplice and mentioned he was uninterested in 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 offered details about his subsequent steps relating to the termination of Russian gasoline transit by means of Ukraine.
“Fico mentioned that two options to the problem of gasoline transit from Ukraine to Slovakia had been ready, which Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal had allegedly agreed upon.
One in every of them was imagined to be an settlement between Russia and Azerbaijan permitting Slovakia to obtain Azerbaijani gasoline, however Fico says that Volodymyr Zelensky disrupted this settlement. The second possibility was a proposal for SPP’s father or mother firm to arrange a subsidiary on the Russian-Ukrainian border in order that Slovak gasoline may very well be transported to Slovakia by way of 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 accomplice’ within the matter of vitality provides.
“Russia has by no means deceived us, not like Ukraine. I keep in mind the state of affairs in 2009 after I was in Ukraine and requested Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko to present us some gasoline from the reservoirs within the western a part of Ukraine, and I used to be instructed to go to hell. These are typical Ukrainians.”
Throughout the handle 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 assume the Germans will ship us gasoline!?”
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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