INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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
