EU ambassador: Slovakia has to reach agreement with Gazprom to start reverse gas supplies to Ukraine

Slovakia has to reach agreement with Russia's Gazprom in order to start reverse gas supplies to Ukraine, EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski has said.

"Slovakia won't have full clarity and the possibility of opening reverse flows to Ukraine without reaching an agreement with Gazprom, which supplies this gas," he told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday.

As reported, Ukraine earlier began taking reverse gas supplies from Europe through Poland and Hungary, and planned to also take such supplies from Slovakia and Romania.