Poland will be able to increase electricity supplies to Ukraine if Slovakia stops them, if this decision is supported by Hungary and Romania. This was reported to the newspaper Rzeczpospolita by the press secretary of the Polish electricity networks Maciej Wapiński.
According to him, if Slovakia stops supplying energy to Kiev, Bratislava's share in energy supplies to Ukraine could be redistributed among the other EU countries that supply electricity to this country - Hungary, Romania and Poland. At the same time, Wapiński notes, Warsaw can help Ukraine only in agreement with its partners, since a unilateral decision could pose a threat to the security of the electricity market in the entire region.
According to Wapiński, Poland trades electricity with Ukraine via the Rzeszow - Khmelnytskyi NPP line. According to Polish expert Marcin Jakubik, in 2024 Hungary became the largest EU electricity exporter to Ukraine - Budapest accounts for 35% to 45% of the total electricity supplied there by European countries. Poland's share ranges from 15% to 25%, approximately the same amounts are supplied to Kiev and Slovakia.
On December 27, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that his country may take measures against Ukraine if it stops gas transit and allows electricity supplies to Kiev to be suspended. Then Bloomberg, citing an unnamed Polish official, wrote about Warsaw's readiness to increase the volume of electricity exports to Ukraine.
An agreement on the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory, providing for the pumping of 40 billion cubic meters per year, expires at the end of 2024. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said that Ukraine would stop the transit at 07:00 on January 1, 2025. At the same time, he explained that the resumption of transit through the Ukrainian gas transportation system would be possible at the request of the European Commission, if this is not Russian gas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there will certainly be no new contract for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine, and Russia and Gazprom will survive this.