Posted on 02/21/2026 12:25:28 PM PST by marshmallow
To avoid It Kiev must resume oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline, Robert Fico said
PRAGUE, February 21. /TASS/. Slovakia will suspend electricity supplies to Ukraine from February 23 if Kiev does not resume oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
"Slovakia is a proud and sovereign country, and I am a proud and sovereign Slovak. If oil supplies to Slovakia are not resumed on Monday, I will ask SEPS to stop supplying electricity to Ukraine," Fico wrote on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in Russia).
According to the prime minister, it took twice as much electricity to stabilize Ukraine’s energy system in January 2026 as in the whole of 2025.
“If the West does not object to the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, Slovakia cannot perceive Slovak-Ukrainian relations as a one-way ticket beneficial only to Ukraine,” he said.
Fico noted that only the suspension of gas supplies to Slovakia caused a 500 million euro damage, while and the suspension of oil transit caused even more damage and logistical difficulties.
“Considering [Vladimir] Zelensky unacceptable attitude towards Slovakia as a hostile country, and I consider it absolutely right not to involve the Slovak Republic in a 90 billion euro military loan to Ukraine,” the prime minister concluded.
On February 13, industry sources told TASS that Ukrtransnafta, which transits oil through Ukraine, prohibited crude supplies to Slovakia and Hungary. According to sources, on February 6, the company eliminated an emergency situation at the Brody station, but oil pumping has not yet resumed. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused Zelensky of blocking the supplies to create difficulties for the government ahead of the parliamentary elections.
On February 19, the European Commission said Hungary and Slovakia stopped diesel fuel supplies to Kiev. On February 20, Hungary blocked the allocation of 90 billion euros by the European Union to Ukraine.
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This should be a lesson to us to always have our nation energy independent.
Zelensky just told his ministers Ukraine is winning and the war needs to go on for 3 more years so Ukraine can finish its victory.
Three more years just happens to be the remainder of Trump’s presidential term.
We talk a lot about “national security” but then often don’t apply that thinking where it really matters.
A few years ago, during the Obama freak-show, our government was seriously debating allowing the Chinese to buy L3, as in the company which builds much of our secure and encrypted communication systems for the DOW and IC.
Note how Brussels and London are not acting to deflect this.
One would think - why wouldn’t the EU powers attempt to stop a burgeoning conflict between Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary? Don’t they need united front?
NO
Ukraine is already their proxy against Russia, and Brussels hates the nationalist Orban and Fico in Hungary and Slovakia.
So the ghouls of Brussels, London and Davos will certainly their pitbull Ukraine to embroil Hungary and Slovakia in chaos as well.
Brussels always makes me think of chocolatiers with windowless vans.
The US cannot get out of NATO soon enough.
Slovakia has lots of hydroelectric plants thanks to the mountains and temperate climate.
Problem with some surrounding countries is lack of natural resources.
Ukraine does have oil and gas but I recall a lot of the area with gas is now controlled by Russia.
I could be wrong.
Brussels always makes me think of chocolatiers with windowless vans.
Appropriate that one of their main ‘tourist attractions’ is a fountain of a boy taking a piss.
Interesting history: “As early as July 1943, the Waffen-SS Division “Galicia” [Ukraine] was sent to the front, where it was defeated at the battle of Brody; after that, a part of the division (survivors) was reformatted and sent to Slovakia, where the soldiers took part in hostilities against the participants of the Slovak uprising, as well as in Poland, against the Home Army.”
Three more years to stop the curve.
Russia should turn off Ukraine’s natural gas supply for a while.
I agree.
I researched that, and according to Grok Ukraine itself does not receive any natural gas from Russia. There was a pipeline going through Ukraine giving other European countries Ruskie gas, but the Uke’s stopped that this year.
https://grok.com/c/bb6537f9-ae19-4214-9b01-73fefadc36f7?rid=564cc7d5-8d73-409d-9056-fc157866e752
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