Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has rejected a Ukrainian invitation to visit Kyiv this week to discuss gas transit deals, Russia's TASS news agency said on Tuesday, citing a Slovak lawmaker, amid a spat over the end of Russian gas deliveries.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico proposed President Volodymyr Zelensky a meeting in Slovakia to discuss halting the Russian gas transit through Ukraine in his video address on Jan. 13 on Facebook. "Okay.

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini refuses to pay an official visit to Kyiv because Ukraine has stopped the transit of Russian gas that Slovakia had been receiving. Source: Slovak publication Aktuality,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to visit Ukraine's capital Kyiv this Friday, responding to his offer of talks to try to resolve a spat over the end of Russian gas deliveries.

Slovakia may halt humanitarian aid and emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine and leverage its veto power in EU matters should Kyiv not resume gas flows through its territory, Prime Minister Robert Fico said in Brussels today.

Slovakia has alternative gas supplies but Fico, who has ended military aid to Ukraine and sought warmer relations with Moscow, says Slovakia will lose its own transit revenues and pay additional transit fees to bring in non-Russian gas. He has also said European gas and power prices would rise as a result of Ukraine's actions.

Prime Minister Robert Fico has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy to Slovakia for talks after weeks of mutual accusations and threats. In an open letter to the Ukrainian head of state published by the government office in Bratislava on Monday,

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a meeting. The meeting is reportedly to take place near the Ukrainian-Slovak border, Fico posted the invitation on his Facebook page.