Slovakia is now receiving Russian gas through Turkey after Ukraine halted deliveries through its area, the countrys gas transit company SPP stated Thursday.Ukraine stopped the westward circulation of Russian gas at the start of the year, dealing a blow to Slovakia, which relies greatly on Russian energy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated the choice aimed to deny Moscow of earnings utilized to fund its war.The move was met with criticism from Slovakia, an EU member state.
Prime Minister Robert Fico among the Kremlins couple of allies in the European Union took a trip to Moscow late in 2015 to work out gas supplies with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Russias state energy giant Gazprom has because resumed partial gas deliveries to SPP, the businesss spokesman, Ondrej Sebesta, told AFP on Thursday.
They are performed by the southern route through TurkStream and via Hungary to Slovakia, he stated, decreasing to supply more details.Slovak newspaper Dennik N priced estimate SPP chief executive Vojtech Ferencz as stating that gas products through TurkStream started on Feb.
1 and that volumes would double in April.The TurkStream pipeline runs 930 kilometers (580 miles) under the Black Sea from the Russian resort city of Anapa to Kiyikoy in northwestern Turkey.
It then connects to overground pipelines supplying Hungary and Slovakia by means of the Balkans.Fico, who leads a vulnerable three-party union, has actually also criticized the loss of gas transit charges that Slovakia formerly collected for shipments more west.
His visit to Moscow set off nationwide demonstrations in January, with 10s of thousands of Slovaks taking to the streets to demand his resignation.