The Slovak government will cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine from February 23 if Kiev does not resume oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline.
“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 cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine,“ Prime Minister Robert Fico wrote on Facebook.
According to the prime minister, stabilizing the Ukrainian power grid in January 2026 required twice as much electricity as it would have needed in all of 2025 "If the West does not object to the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, then Slovakia cannot perceive Slovak-Ukrainian relations as a one-way ticket that benefits only Ukraine," he stressed.
Fico noted that the disruption of gas supplies to Slovakia alone caused damage of EUR 500 million, while the suspension of oil transit caused even greater damage and created logistical difficulties. "Given Volodymyr Zelensky's unacceptable attitude towards Slovakia as a hostile country, I believe that the decision not to include the Slovak Republic in a EUR 90 billion military loan for Ukraine was absolutely correct," the prime minister concluded.
On February 13, oil industry sources reported that the management of Ukrtransnafta, which provides oil transit through Ukrainian territory, does not allow resumption of crude oil supplies to Slovakia and Hungary. According to sources, the company completed the emergency response at the Brody linear production and dispatching station in Ukraine on February 6, but oil pumping has not yet resumed. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accused Volodymyr Zelensky of blocking oil supplies to Hungary from Russia through the Druzhba pipeline in order to create difficulties for the government before the parliamentary elections.
On February 19, the European Commission announced that Hungary and Slovakia had stopped diesel fuel supplies to Kiev. On February 20, the Hungarian government decided to block EUR 90 billion in EU aid to Ukraine, claiming that it was hindering the transit of Russian oil.