Slovakia resists push to quickly quit Russian oil

Slovakia has no plans to quickly abandon Russian oil supplies, President Peter Pellegrini told Trump during talks in New York this week. Trump has been pressing the European Union’s holdouts – Hungary and Slovakia – to end imports of Russian crude, arguing it would help choke off Moscow’s war funding and push Putin toward peace talks.But Slovakia, a landlocked Eastern European country that borders Ukraine, is resisting, citing technological hurdles and limited capacity on alternative routes.“If change is to come in the coming years, it’s called diversification,” Pellegrini told Trump when the pair met on Sept 23 in New York, according to a statement emailed by the Slovakian leader’s office on Saturday. “Slovakia needs three, four, five different sources of gas and energy. We cannot replace dependence on Russia with dependence on the US.”