Consider it or not, through the period of the Ukraine conflict, there was a contract in impact for the transit of Russian gasoline via Ukraine to be bought by Central Europe nations.
This transit contract between Ukraine and Russia will expire on 1 January 2025, and Ukraine has made it clear that it’s going to not lengthen the settlement.
Through the EU Summit going down in Brussels, many leaders have been pleading for its continuation, together with Slovak PM Robert Fico, who stated {that a} ‘battle’ between Ukraine and Slovakia may come up from that.
Politico reported:
“Zelensky lashed out at Slovakia, saying: ‘It’s a bit shameful to speak about cash as a result of we’re shedding folks’. Fico later informed reporters that Zelensky’s proposals to him behind closed doorways had been ‘absurd’ and recommended Ukraine was taking the freedom to wreck an EU member’s economic system.”
Fico additionally blew the whistle on what quantities to a bribing proposal Made by the Ukrainian chief.
“Fico stated that after he informed Zelensky that Slovakia may lose about €500 million in gasoline transit charges a 12 months, the Ukrainian president ‘requested me if I might then vote for NATO membership if he gave me €500 million of Russian property, and naturally, I stated ‘by no means’’.”
Ukrainska Pravda reported:
“’We’re demonstrably going through a gasoline disaster due to President Zelensky’, Fico said throughout a press convention earlier than the summit, although he didn’t make clear his remarks additional.
[…] ‘We’ve variations on the problem of gasoline transit via Ukraine. I requested him whether or not he can be able to transit different gasoline in addition to Russian gasoline’, Fico stated.”
Zelensky additionally dominated out the chance that Ukraine may transit any gasoline, even from different international locations.
“’We see no cause to pay extra for gasoline resulting from geopolitical circumstances’, the Slovak prime minister said throughout a press convention on 13 December, accusing the West of exerting strain concerning gasoline transit.
EU Commissioner for Vitality Dan Jørgensen confirmed that the EU is actively getting ready to finish all gasoline cooperation with Russia, stating, ‘Our primary precedence is to utterly sever power ties between the EU and Russia’.”
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