Slovakia officially stops emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine - Fico

Slovakia will stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine starting today, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. Fico published the video message on his Facebook page on Monday, February 23.

The Prime Minister announced that he had fulfilled his own promise to provide emergency electricity to Ukraine.

"I have fulfilled what I announced on Saturday: "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, there were twice as many such emergency supplies needed to stabilize the Ukrainian energy grid as in the whole of 2025," Fico emphasized.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on February 22, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened to stop emergency electricity supply if Ukraine does not resume oil supplies to his country.

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.

In 2025, Ukraine received 42% of imported electricity from Hungary and 19% from Slovakia.