Putin orders an EU leader to cut the energy deliveries to Ukraine: “Stop the natural gas deliveries in the opposite direction, block the energy”

In the discussion held on Tuesday, in Beijing, with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Vladimir Putin ordered this state, a member of NATO and the European Union (EU), to cut Ukraine's energy deliveries, AFP reports, according to News.ro.

Slovakia is very dependent on Russian natural gas. Fico, known for his pro -position positions, criticized on several occasions both the support of Ukraine by the European Union from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in 2022, as well as the European sanctions imposed on Moscow.

He believes that these sanctions are a risk to the energy security of Slovakia.

Slovakia and Hungary demanded, in August, the EU, to take measures against “repeated” S of Ukraine who aim for energy infrastructures in Russia.

Recently, these attacks carried out by Kiev as a response to massive Russian bombardments by targeting the Ukrainian energy system, disturbed the operation of the Drujba oil, which continues to link Russia to Central and Eastern Europe.

Due to these disturbances, Vladimir Putin asked Slovakia on Tuesday to cut Ukraine's energy deliveries.

“Ukraine receives a considerable amount of energy resources from its neighbors in Eastern Europe. Cut the (natural) gas deliveries in the opposite direction, block energy deliveries,” he ordered, according to the quoted source.

“Then they will immediately understand that there are limits of their behavior in the violation of the interests of others,” the Kremlin leader stressed.

In 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the EU imposed a ban on most oil imports from Russia.

However, the Drujba (“friendship”, in Russian), has been used in the 1960s, was temporarily exempted in order to leave time for EU member states in Central Europe to find alternative solutions.

Fico is the only head of government of a member country of the European Union present in Beijing on the occasion of the mark of the 80th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II. Another Western leader present is the Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic.