Fico threatened Ukraine with a possible stoppage of electricity supplies. And he dug into Zelenský and the Czechs

Fico accused Zelenský of not being interested in a truce in the war against aggressive Russia. “It is incomprehensible to me that the Ukrainian president refuses a ceasefire and that the Ukrainian political leadership is dragging the entire country into disaster,” Fico said in a video he shared on Facebook.

Ukraine has been defending itself against Russian aggression for three years. Russian leader Vladimir Putin claims that he will proceed to ceasefire negotiations only if Ukraine withdraws from four regions that Russia does not even fully control: Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye.

Fico, who met with Putin last week, further stated that Slovakia will continue to promote a sovereign policy and that it will always respect international law.

“And no one will change anything about this. Neither the shouters from the Bratislava cafe, nor the aggressive liberal media, nor the Czech political scene, which increasingly inappropriately interferes in our sovereign internal affairs,” Fico kicked at the Czech Republic.

The Slovak Prime Minister also reminded that Ukraine plans to stop supplying Russian gas to Slovakia from January 1. If he does so, Slovakia is said to consider retaliation.

“After the first of January, we will evaluate the situation and the possibilities of reciprocal measures against Ukraine. If it becomes unavoidable, we will stop the supply of electricity that Ukraine needs in the event of grid outages. Or we will agree on another course of action,” threatens Fico.

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini also made a similar threat at the end of July, when the Ukrainians stopped the supply of oil from the Russian company Lukoil via the Druzhba pipeline for several days. At that time, he stated that if Slovakia had to tap into its iron reserves, Bratislava could tap into reciprocal measures. Even then, he mentioned electricity, which Ukrainians urgently need due to Russian shelling of key infrastructure.

Nevertheless, Slovakia provided humanitarian aid to the attacked neighbor and also exports diesel and electricity to Ukraine. Between January and November of this year, Ukraine exported 2.4 million megawatt-hours of electricity, which represents a year-on-year increase of 152 percent, Reuters wrote.

In the video, the Slovak Prime Minister also touched on his meeting with the dictator Putin, with whom he met in Moscow just before Christmas. However, he only talked about Putin for a few seconds when he mentioned that they talked about the ceasefire in Ukraine.