kyiv’s decision, since the 1is January, to cut off the tap for transporting Russian gas to Central Europe provokes the ire of the pro-Russian Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico.
The cessation of Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine on 1is Will last January bring down Robert Fico’s government? At the start of the year, energy dependence on Russia is at the heart of political debates in Bratislava and it is even shaking up the government, which continues to bet everything on Russian imports, to the great dismay of the opposition. kyiv has in fact decided not to renew the contract which linked it until December 31 to the Russian company Gazprom for the transport of gas from Russia to Central Europe.
« This is one of Moscow’s greatest defeats »welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky, while his western neighbor Robert Fico fumed at seeing this cheap energy, accessible directly from the source, dry up since the early 1980s, via the Brotherhood gas pipeline. “ Your decision to stop gas transit through Ukraine to Slovakia and other…
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