Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico made an unannounced browse through to Moscow on Sunday wherefore he and the Kremlin called a “working meeting” withPresident Vladimir Putin
Fico made the journey days after getting to a predicament in a conflict with the federal government in Kyiv over the transportation of Russian gas via Ukraine to Slovakia, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy claiming he does not mean to expand existing agreements past completion of the year.
The Slovak leader had actually attempted to safeguard a modification in this position, without success, at the EU top in Brussels previously today.
Fico is just the 3rd leader of an EU participant state to go to Moscow for talks with Putin considering that Russia’s 2022 intrusion ofUkraine He complies with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in April 2022 and far more just recently, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban inJuly
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed on Sunday that the night talks had actually wrapped up which both leaders would certainly not release a joint declaration.
Fico: Ukraine’s gas, nuclear positions ‘inappropriate’
Commenting on Facebook, nevertheless, Fico claimed, “that he had informed the EU’s ” leading authorities” of his trip ” and its objective” onFriday
