A month after the Ukrainian transit stop, Slovakia again receives gas from Russia. This is now being transported by Turkey and Hungary, said the state of Slovak gas supplier SPP.
The contract with the Russian group Gazprom, which still runs until 2034, must be achieved despite political concerns. As reported, the Ukrainian authorities had stopped passing the Russian gas during the beginning of the year. The background is to pass a delivery contract with Gazprom. Austria is also hit by the transit stop.
Slovakia depends on the Russian gas as hardly any other EU country. To continue to secure Russian gas deliveries, the Slovak Minister of Economic Affairs Denisa Sakova had traveled to the Gazprom seat in St. Petersburg. Prime Minister Robert Fico, in turn, met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara and with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. This journey led to mass protests in different Slovak cities.
Further alternatives are needed
An SPP manager admitted on Thursday that the capacity of the Turkstream pipeline, which also supplies other European countries with gas, was not sufficient to compensate for the earlier deliveries of Russian gas via Ukraine. That is why extra alternatives would be protected in the coming years.
Source: Krone
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