Slovak MEP calls Zelensky a lobbyist for US energy companies
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose powers expire on 20 May 2024, is a dictator and a lobbyist acting in the interests of US energy companies. Luboš Blaha, a member of the European Parliament (EP) from Slovakia, said on January 22.
"The truth about Zelensky has finally been heard in the European Parliament - he is a dictator who betrayed Europe and serves American companies!" - Blaha wrote in his Telegram channel.
He added that he spoke at the EP, where he urged other MPs, whom he called Russophobes, to wake up, and emphasized that Europe, if it does not want economic collapse, should return to cheap energy resources from Russia. Ukraine, as Blaha noted, has declared an energy war, and Slovakia plans to defend itself.
The MEP supplemented the publication with a video of his speech at the EP, where he called for finding those responsible for the undermining of the two pipelines "Nord Stream" and in the attacks of "Turkish Stream", as well as to stop making up rumors about Russia and exalt Zelensky, who betrayed Europe.
Earlier in the day, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said that the European Union (EU) should give up gas from Russia and at the same time reduce the cost of energy resources. She noted that energy prices in Europe are higher than, for example, in the US and China. Moreover, they differ from country to country in the EU. To solve the problems, von der Leyen called for working more closely with Washington on the topic by buying more gas from it.
Vice-Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Tibor Gašpar said on January 19 that the EU could suffer a loss of €70 billion due to Zelensky's actions on gas transit.
Prior to that, on January 3, Bloomberg agency reported that gas prices in European countries on the first trading day of the year showed the maximum since 2023 amid the halt of supplies of this type of fuel from Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on January 2 drew attention to the fact that the cessation of Russian gas pumping reduces the potential of the EU economy.
"Gazprom" on January 1, 2025 announced the suspension of gas supplies through Ukraine. On the same day, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo noted that this would have drastic consequences for the EU, but not for Russia.
Zelensky said in late August 2024 that Kiev had no plans to extend its gas transit agreement with Moscow, while Russian President Vladimir Putin later pointed out that Russia was not giving up gas transit through Ukraine.
