Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has invited Volodymyr Zelensky to meet on Slovak territory near the border with Ukraine to discuss the issue of Russian gas transit. In a Facebook post on Monday, Fico argued that Slovakia has “demonstrated and continues to demonstrate significant solidarity with your citizens,

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.