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    Slovakia’s PM Fico visits Moscow amid Ukraine gas dispute

    By Olga Winter - EU Newsdesk3 Mins Read
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    Slovakia's PM Fico visits Moscow amid Ukraine gas dispute

    Slovakia’s PM Fico visits Moscow amid Ukraine gas dispute. Prime Minister Robert Fico made an unannounced visit to Moscow on Sunday for what he and the Kremlin called a “working meeting” with President Vladimir Putin. 

    Fico made the trip days after reaching a deadlock in a dispute with the government in Kyiv over the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Slovakia, with Volodymyr Zelensky saying he does not intend to extend existing contracts past the end of the year.

    The Slovak leader had tried to secure a change in this stance, without success, at the EU summit in Brussels earlier this week.

    Slovakia’s PM Fico visits Moscow

    Fico is only the third leader of an EU member state to visit Moscow for talks with Putin since Russia‘s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. He follows Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in April 2022 and much more recently, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in July.

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that the evening talks had concluded and that the two leaders would not issue a joint statement.

    Ukraine’s gas and nuclear stances unacceptable

    Commenting on Facebook, however, Fico said, ” that he had informed the EU’s “top officials” of his trip “and its purpose” on Friday on the back of saying Ukraine’s gas and nuclear stances unacceptable.

    Ukraine gas dispute

    “My meeting today was a response to the Ukrainian President [Volodymyr] Zelensky, who answered my personal question on Thursday that he was against any transit of gas through Ukraine to our territory …  which for Slovakia, which is unacceptable” as part of an ongoing Ukraine gas dispute, Fico said.

    He said that Putin had indicated a willingness to continue providing Slovakia and the West with gas, but that this was “practically impossible” given Zelensky’s position. As Ukraine‘s Zelensky joins EU leaders in Brussels.

    Slovakia has special dispensation from the EU

    Slovakia has special dispensation from the EU, whose stated goal as a bloc is to eventually cut all ties to Russian gas, to continue importing from state energy giant Gazprom, but without Ukraine’s cooperation the means of delivery does not currently exist.

    Fico said that in a “long conversation,” he and Putin had discussed views on the military situation in Ukraine, the prospects of an early peaceful end to the war, and Slovak-Russian relations, “which I intend to standardize.”

    Fico should negotiate in Kyiv instead as Slovakia's PM Fico visits Moscow amid Ukraine gas dispute

    Slovak opposition says Fico should negotiate in Kyiv instead

    Ahead of the unscheduled trip of Slovakia’s PM Fico visits Moscow, Fico drew condemnation from his political opponents at home. Michal Simecka, who is presenting himself as NATO and Anti Russian, Progressive Slovakia, said that Fico was “only playing a dishonest game with his voters” and also “betraying” the country and Fico should negotiate in Kyiv instead.

    “The prime minister should discuss gas transit for Slovakia in Kyiv,” Simecka said.

    Branislav Gröhling, leader of the smaller liberal opposition party Freedom and Solidarity,  called Fico “a disgrace for Slovakia,” adding that the prime minister did not speak for the entire country.

    “He is not behaving like the head of government of a sovereign country, but like an ordinary collaborator,” Gröhling said.

    Fico ended military support for Ukraine when he became prime minister again in October 2023, but has also said he wants to be a “good, friendly neighbour” to Ukraine.

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