{"id":1361660,"date":"2026-02-23T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fico-ordered-to-stop-electricity-supplies-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:29:10","slug":"fico-ordered-to-stop-electricity-supplies-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fico-ordered-to-stop-electricity-supplies-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fico ordered to stop electricity supplies to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"725\"><strong>Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/867159759690827\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he had ordered the cessation of emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"1008\"> According to Fico, he has fulfilled a promise he made earlier. If the supply of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline is not restored, Slovakia will stop providing emergency assistance to the Ukrainian energy system.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1201\"> &#8220;I have fulfilled what I announced on Saturday &#8211; if oil supplies are not restored on Monday, I will ask SEPS to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine,&#8221; the head of the Slovak government said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1339\"> He also noted that in January 2026 alone, Ukraine needed twice as much emergency electricity supplies as in all of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1341\" data-end=\"1465\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Thus, Bratislava directly linked the issue of energy support for Ukraine with the transit of Russian oil to Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1341\" data-end=\"1465\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> It was previously reported <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/khorvatiia-vidmovylasia-transportuvaty-rosiysku-naftu-dlia-uhorshchyny-ta-slovachchyny\/\">that Croatia responded to requests from Hungary and Slovakia regarding the possibility of transporting Russian oil through the Adria pipeline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1341\" data-end=\"1465\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban publicly stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/blokada-na-sto-rokiv-orban-pro-vstup-ukrainy-v-yes\/\">Budapest would not allow Ukraine to join the European Union<\/a> , and also accused Kyiv of interfering in the country&#8217;s domestic politics. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1039\" data-end=\"1322\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he had ordered the cessation of emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. According to Fico, he has fulfilled a promise he made earlier. If the supply of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline is not restored, Slovakia will stop providing emergency assistance to the Ukrainian energy system. &#8220;I have fulfilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1068332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1361660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}