{"id":17242,"date":"2025-09-02T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:06:06","slug":"putin-suggests-eu-state-response-to-ukrainian-attacks-on-energy-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=17242","title":{"rendered":"Putin suggests EU-state response to Ukrainian attacks on energy flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slovakia could cut energy supplies in retaliation for Kiev\u2019s disruption of oil deliveries, the Russian president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Bratislava could retaliate against Ukrainian attacks on its oil deliveries by cutting off energy supplies to the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Slovakia and Hungary, which rely on Russian oil shipments through the Druzhba (\u201cFriendship\u201d<\/em>) pipeline, have accused Kiev of deliberately disrupting their imports with military strikes. Putin compared the situation to Moscow\u2019s own experience when Ukrainian forces struck Russian energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u201cWe had maintained restraint for a long time as Ukrainian troops struck our energy sites. Eventually, we started retaliations. And our retaliation now is, shall we say, serious,\u201d<\/em> Putin said.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The Russian leader noted that Slovakia and Hungary have leverage of their own since Ukraine depends on energy imports from its eastern European neighbors.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u201cCut off their supplies of gas via reverse flow. Cut off electricity supply. And they will realize at once that there are limits to their behavior that violate other parties\u2019 interests,\u201d<\/em> Putin suggested.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>Fico said he intends to pressure Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky over the issue during a meeting scheduled for Friday and expressed opposition to Brussels\u2019 goal of fully cutting off imports of Russian oil and gas by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u201cWe will be voting against such decisions,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cI am certain that things will change before January 1, 2028, and that the RePowerEU initiative would not go forward, since it would cause us much damage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Zelensky recently used a pun when commenting on Kiev\u2019s attacks on the pipeline. \u201cWe have always supported friendship between Ukraine and Hungary, and now the existence of Druzba depends on the Hungarian position,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto condemned the remarks as \u201coutrageous and scandalous,\u201d<\/em> saying they made Kiev\u2019s pressure tactics explicit beyond doubt. Officials in both Slovakia and Hungary have floated the idea of retaliatory energy cuts but have not yet acted on the threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slovakia could cut energy supplies in retaliation for Kiev\u2019s disruption of oil deliveries, the Russian president has said Bratislava could retaliate against Ukrainian attacks on its oil deliveries by cutting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t