Slovakia’s PM Claims Putin Promised to Keep Sending Russian Gas

Vladimir Putin has pledged to Slovakia that Russia’s Gazprom would find an alternative route to supply contracted natural gas to the landlocked central European country after the end of the transit deal with Ukraine, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was quoted as saying on Friday. Fico has defied the EU and met with Putin in Moscow at the end of December to discuss Russian gas supply to Slovakia ahead of the halt to deliveries via Ukraine. On December 31, the supply deal for Russian gas to Europe transiting Ukraine expired, and…