Slovakia Threatens to Cut Emergency Electricity to Ukraine
The dispute revolves around the Druzhba pipeline, a Soviet-era conduit that transports Russian crude to both Hungary and Slovakia. Supplies were halted in late January, with Ukraine attributing the interruption to a Russian airstrike. Moscow, in contrast, claimed that Ukraine was leveraging energy as a means of pressure against the two EU countries, which have criticized the bloc’s support for Ukraine. Both Slovakia and Hungary have echoed this position.
On Saturday, Fico took to X to issue a direct warning to President Vladimir Zelensky, while also criticizing Ukraine for what he perceives as a lack of gratitude for Slovakia’s past humanitarian aid and its accommodation of roughly 180,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Zelensky, Fico wrote, “refuses to understand our peace-oriented approach and, because we do not support the war, he is behaving maliciously toward Slovakia.”
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