Slovak prime minister has ‘one-on-one’ meeting at the Kremlin as Ukraine prepares to halt transit of Russian gas
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico met Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday, marking one of the few meetings the Russian president has had with an EU leader since he ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago. The visit, not announced in advance but confirmed on Sunday by the Kremlin when it shared a video of Fico shaking Putin’s hand, comes amid a standoff between Slovakia and Ukraine over energy security.
Fico’s visit was planned several days ago, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV journalist on Sunday. He added that Putin and Fico were meeting “one-on-one” and were likely to discuss current affairs and the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine. Fico earlier this week challenged Ukraine’s plans to cut off the gas supply, asking why it had “the right to damage the economic national interests” of an EU member state.
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