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22.02.26 - 15:12
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Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine′s Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates (ZeroHedge)
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Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine's Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates
Slovakia's populist Prime Minister and pro-Trump ally Robert Fico has drawn an unexpectedly hard line in his country's ongoing energy showdown with Ukraine: restore Russian oil flows, or else a key emergency electricity lifeline for Ukraine gets pulled.
In a weekend post on X, Fico warned that unless Ukraine resumes pumping Russian crude to Slovakia by Monday, Bratislava will cut off its emergency power exports. This is an immense threat given current frigid subzero temperatures in war-ravaged Ukraine.
"If the West does not mind that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up, Slovakia cannot accept Slovak-Ukrainian relations as a one-way ticket benefiting only Ukraine," he wrote, in a pointed swipe at Brussels and Washington alike.
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Fico went on to blast Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying: "The Ukrainian president refuses to understand our peace-oriented approach...
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