Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his intention to visit Moscow on June 2 to discuss Russian natural gas supplies to Slovakia through Ukraine, Russian state media reported Sunday. "We are concerned by the Russian side's announcement that its gas will no longer transit through Ukrainian territory after 2018-2019. This will create some difficulty for us," Fico said, speaking in an interview published by news agency TASS. Slovakia gets most of its natural gas from Russia, but deliveries have dwindled over the past year as Russia's relations with Ukraine have fallen to an all-time low. Russia's proposed Turkish Stream pipeline, tentatively to be completed by 2019, would redirect gas exports away from Ukraine.
