- Slovakia is considering stopping electricity supplies to Ukraine due to strained relations.
- Minister Šutaj Eštok criticizes Ukraine’s approach to the Slovak government.
- Communication from Ukraine is assessed by Slovak ministers as insufficient.
If Slovakia is not a respected partner state for Ukraine, it will have to take such measures as stopping the supply of electricity to Ukraine. He stated that Minister of the Interior Matúš Šutaj Eštok (Voice-SD).
“Stopping the provision of electricity supplies to Ukraine is important from the point of view that if there is a power outage when our transmission system is able to start the Ukrainian one, there will not be some fundamental impact on the public budget that we should lose. It is money that is incomparable to what we lose from the point of view of Ukraine blocking the transit of gas to Slovakia.” Šutaj Eštok said.
Minister of Education Tomáš Drucker (Voice-SD) does not currently feel that Ukraine is behaving as a partner. For Šutaj Eštok, the arrogance with which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy approaches the current Slovak government is striking.
According to the Minister of the Interior, stopping strategic supplies of energy carriers is a huge problem for the Slovak economy. “It is a shortfall that is noticeable and significant in public finances,” he noted. It does not even consider the current situation with diesel supplies, or oil for the kind that a friendly partner country deserves.
Drucker explained that Economy Minister Denisa Sakova (Voice-SD) is communicating with Croatia, the Czech Republic and Hungary in connection with diversification. “She herself advises that the communication from the Ukrainian side is weak and that we are not receiving clear information,” Drucker pointed out.
Prime Minister Robert Fico (Direction-SD) announced that he will visit the state Slovak electricity transmission system on Monday and ask it to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. The reason is the stoppage of transit of Russian oil through Ukrainian territory to Slovakia and Hungary.
