The deputy speaker of the Slovak parliament said that Zelensky turned politics into theater

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (his term of office expired on 20 May 2024) is turning politics into theater. Andrei Danko, deputy speaker of the National Council (unicameral parliament) of Slovakia, said on January 16.

"Zelensky has learned to play political theater, and he is abusing the issue of gas supplies. This is damaging the entire European Union," he told TASS.

Danko believes that in this situation the western European countries are winning, while the eastern EU states are losing their competitiveness.

In addition, he emphasized that there is no logic in the Ukrainian leader's policy and he acts according to instructions. According to him, Zelensky is not an independent politician and will do everything to please those who finance him.

"Zelensky must do what he is ordered to do. He is not an independently thinking politician," the deputy speaker of the Slovak parliament emphasized.

Zelensky said back in August 2024 that Kiev would not extend the gas transit agreement with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in turn, pointed out that Moscow does not refuse gas supplies through Ukrainian territory.

Later, starting from January 1, 2025, Gazprom stopped supplying fuel to Europe through the Ukrainian gas transportation system. The state corporation said that this happened due to Ukraine's refusal to prolong the agreements.

After that, on January 3, the president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR), Vadim Krasnoselsky, said that 1.5 thousand multi-storey and 72 thousand private houses in Transnistria were left without heat and gas. Hungary and Slovakia also faced problems against this background.

On January 14, political scientist Ruslan Kalinchuk told Izvestia that the United States would like to see Europe less competitive, which is why the administration of incumbent head of state Joe Biden demanded that Zelensky stop the transit of Russian gas. According to the expert, despite the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties of the United States, the teams of both Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are determined to maintain Washington's global dominance in the economy and politics, but in different ways.

On the same day, former Irish member of the European Parliament (EP) Mick Wallace urged Zelensky not to be a pawn of the United States.