Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated today that he will ask all relevant companies producing electricity in the country to suspend electricity deliveries to Ukraine if Kyiv does not resume oil supplies by Monday.
“Ukrainian President (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) refuses to understand our peace approach and, since we do not support the war, is behaving maliciously toward Slovakia. He first stopped the flow of gas to Slovakia, causing us damage of 500 million euros annually. Now he has stopped the flow of oil, causing us further losses and logistical difficulties,” Fico wrote on his account on the X network.
According to him, Slovakia cannot accept Slovak-Ukrainian relations as a one-way ticket that benefits only Ukraine.
“If oil supplies to Slovakia are not resumed on Monday, I will ask SEPS, the state joint-stock company, to stop emergency electricity deliveries to Ukraine. In January 2026 alone, these emergency supplies, needed to stabilize the Ukrainian energy grid, were required twice as much as during the entire year of 2025,” the Slovak prime minister said.
He stated that Slovakia has been helping Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
“About 180,000 Ukrainians are currently on our territory, we provide humanitarian assistance and organize joint government meetings. We are doing significantly more for Ukraine than some other countries,” Fico emphasized. According to him, Zelenskyy treats Slovakia as a hostile country.
“Given the unacceptable behavior of President Zelenskyy toward Slovakia, treating it as a hostile country, I consider it absolutely correct that I refused to include the Slovak Republic in the latest military loan for Ukraine of 90 billion euros,” Fico said.
The Slovak government earlier this week declared a state of emergency in the oil industry due to the suspension of supplies via the Druzhba pipeline and decided to lend up to 250,000 tons of oil from state reserves to the Bratislava refinery Slovnaft.
The Slovnaft refinery requires between 7,300 and 7,500 tons of oil per day for normal operations, and the state reserves are expected to cover at least one month of operation until alternative supplies are established, Tanjug reports.
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