Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will not visit Kyiv to discuss the halting of Russian gas transit through Ukraine, Tibor Gaspar, deputy-speaker of the Slovak Parliament told Russian state-controlled news agency TASS on Jan.

Russia's gas flows to Europe ended at the start of the year following the expiration of a transit agreement between Kyiv and Moscow. Ukraine refused to extend the deal, seeking to stop energy revenue going to Moscow to fund its nearly three-year invasion.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has declined President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's invitation to visit Kyiv for discussions on gas transit. Source: TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet, citing Slovak Parliament Deputy Speaker Tibor Gašpar,

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, will not travel to Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing Tibor Gaspar, Deputy Speaker of the Slovak Parliament, in his comment to the Russian state agency TASS.