Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico criticized Ukraine’s sanctions against the Russian company Lukoil in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on July 20, the Slovak news agency Tasr reported. In June, Kyiv imposed sanctions blocking the transit of pipeline oil from Lukoil to Central Europe to cut off the Kremlin’s source of income used to support its military. “Slovakia doesn’t intend to be a hostage to Ukrainian-Russian relations,” Fico reportedly told Shmyhal. Fico claimed that Ukraine’s decision to block Lukoil transit would have negative ramifications for the Slovak oil ref…