If Ukraine does not resume oil supplies to Slovakia by Monday, emergency electricity supplies will be cut off

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatens to stop emergency electricity supplies if Ukraine does not resume oil supplies to Slovakia.

Ekonomichna Pravda announced this, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

Fico wrote on his page on X that the President of Ukraine is being mean to Slovakia and refuses to understand their peaceful approach because he does not support the war.

"If oil supplies to Slovakia are not resumed on Monday, I will ask SEPS, the state-owned joint-stock company, to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. In January 2026 alone, these emergency supplies, which are necessary to stabilize the Ukrainian energy system, were needed twice as much as in the whole of 2025," the Slovak prime minister emphasized.

Fico notes that Zelenskyy first cut off gas flows to Slovakia, causing losses of EUR 500 million a year.

Now he has cut off the flow of oil, which Fico believes is causing further losses and logistical difficulties.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on February 19, Slovakia announced the possibility of cutting off electricity supplies to Ukraine amid a conflict over the transit of russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline.

Hungary and Slovakia decided on February 18 to stop supplying diesel fuel to Ukraine due to the shutdown of the Druzhba pipeline.

In August 2025, Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár hinted that Ukraine could be left without Slovak diesel fuel if it continues to strike at the Druzhba pipeline.