Unlike Poland, the cessation of Russian gas delivery via Ukraine does not please Slovakia and Hungary. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who remains close to Vladimir Putin and whose country is very dependent on Russian gas supplies, warned this Wednesday of the serious consequences that he believes the end of the transit will have.
“Stopping gas transit through Ukraine will have a drastic impact on all of us in the EU, not just the Russian Federation,” he warned in a video posted on Facebook.
This nationalist leader went to Moscow on December 22 to try to find an urgent solution, provoking the anger of Volodymyr Zelensky, who accused him of wanting to “help Putin”. “Diversification has a price and any alternative to Russian gas will be significantly more expensive,” warned AFP the spokesperson for the Slovak gas company SPP, Ondrej Sebesta.
Hungary receives most of its Russian gas imports via TurkStream, which passes under the Black Sea, and the cessation of transit via Ukraine will only marginally affect it, even if Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said “not wanting to abandon” this road.
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