Jan 1 (Reuters) - The stoppage of gas transit through Ukraine will have "drastic" impact on European Union countries but not on Russia, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday.
The pro-Russian Slovak leader has repeatedly warned that the end of transit would cost Slovakia hundreds of millions of euros in lost transit revenue and higher fees for the import of other gas, and argued it would also lead to a rise in gas and electricity prices in Europe.
(Reporting by Jan Lopatka in Prague; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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