Prime Minister Fico: Slovakia will suspend electricity supplies to Ukraine if Kyiv obstructs oil supplies via "Druzhba"
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated this.
Hungarian and Slovak Prime Ministers Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico. Photo: AP Photo / Denes Erdos
"Since the beginning of the war, Slovakia has been providing assistance to Ukraine. However, the President of Ukraine does not want to understand our peaceful approach and, because we do not support the war, behaves unfriendly towards Slovakia. First, gas supplies to Slovakia were stopped, which cost us 500 million euros per year. Now, oil supplies have been stopped, which entails additional losses and logistical difficulties," the Slovak Prime Minister's statement reads.
"If the fact that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up causes no objections in the West, Slovakia cannot tolerate Slovak-Ukrainian relations turning into a 'one-way ticket' exclusively beneficial to Ukraine. Slovakia is a proud and sovereign country, and I am a proud and sovereign Slovak. If oil supplies to Slovakia are not restored by Monday, I will demand that the state company SEPS stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. In January 2026 alone, the volume of these emergency supplies, necessary to stabilize the Ukrainian energy system, turned out to be twice as large as for the entire year 2025.
Under such unacceptable treatment by President Zelensky towards Slovakia as a hostile state, I consider my decision to refuse the participation of the Slovak Republic in the latest military loan for Ukraine of 90 billion euros to be entirely correct," Robert Fico added.