Slovak Prime Minister: If the gas problem continues, I will block financial aid to Ukraine

According to RCO News Agency, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fitzow said today (Friday) that he is ready to block financial aid to Ukraine if the gas transit issue is not resolved.

On January 1, the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine was stopped with the end of the 2019 contract between Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz. The Russian company announced that it is legally and technically unable to continue transporting gas through the pipeline that supplied Moldova and four European Union countries, i.e. Slovakia, Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic.

“If they inform us in the next three weeks that Ukraine has blocked everything (on the gas transit issue), I will easily block financial aid to Ukraine,” Fitso said during a meeting of the parliamentary committee on European affairs.

He added that he is ready to veto the European Union’s plan to send a 50 billion euro support budget to Ukraine.
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