Slovakia makes it clear that it does not intend to immediately interrupt Russian oil imports, despite Donald Trump’s pressures on EU countries that are still being supplied with Moscow slow, Peter Peter Peter Peliti, Peter Peliti, said to the US Peter Pelitrini. Bloomberg.

Trump is pushing the countries of the European Union that continue to import Russian argon, Hungary and Slovakia, to end imports, arguing that this would help to deprive Moscow war and bring Vladimir Putin to the table.

However, Slovakia, a country in Eastern Europe without access to the sea and with borders with Ukraine, resists, citing technical obstacles and limited potential for alternative routes.

Slovak President Peter Pelegrini told Donald Trump during their meeting on September 23 in New York that any change in the coming years should be called “differentiation”.

“Slovakia needs three, four, five different sources of gas and energy. We cannot replace Russia’s dependence on dependence on the United States, “he said, according to a statement from his office.

Pelegrini stressed that Slovakia could not adequately differentiate energy suppliers in a short period of time without technical and logistical support.

He described the meeting with Trump as constructive, saying that the US president heard his arguments. “He was smiling, but he told me clearly, do something about it,” he said.

On the same week, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban also expressed his objections to Trump, saying that the abandonment of Russian oil and gas would destroy the country’s economy.

Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, the European Union is considering commercial measures targeting the remaining imports of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline.

Russian crude imports now amount to only 3% of all EU oil imports, compared to about 27% before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Union estimates in May.

Trump has also pressed Turkey and India to stop buying oil from Russia.