Ukraine war briefing: Putin meets Slovak PM in rare Moscow visit to secure energy deal

Russian president, Vladimir Putin met the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, in the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by a European Union leader to Moscow, as a contract allowing for Russian gas to transit through Ukraine nears expiry. Slovakia is dependent on that gas passing through its neighbour Ukraine, and it has ramped up efforts to maintain those flows from 2025, while criticising Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for refusing to extend the contract expiring at the end of the year. Russian natural gas still flows to some European countries, including Slovakia, through Ukraine under a five-year agreement signed before

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