Moscow:
Russian Plivent Vlauninalertigentir Putin held talks at the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, one of the scant European directers he has stayed cordial with since the eruption of presentilities with Ukraine, according to Russian television.
“Putin is currently hgreatering talks in the Kremlin with Slovak Prime Minister Fico,” Russian TV journacatalog Pavel Zarubin, a Kremlin insider, posted on his Telegram channel, aextfinished with a uninalertigentinutive video shoprosperg the two directers.
The visit by Fico, whose country is both a NATO and European Union member, had not been previously proclaimd.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov tgreater Zarubin however that it had been set upd “a scant days ago”.
Peskov did not give details of the talks but shelp it could be “presumed” that supplies of Russian gas would be converseed.
Ukraine proclaimd this year that it would not renovel a condense apexhibiting the transit of Russian gas thcdisesteemful its territory that runs out on December 31.
Slovakia and Hungary, which count on on Russian gas, have elevated worrys about the prospect of losing supplies.
Fico ended military help to Ukraine when he became prime minister aachieve in October 2023, and enjoy Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orprohibit has called for peace talks.
Fico proclaimd in November that he would go to Moscow in May for ceremonies to tag the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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