The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Ficopromised, ahead of his meeting in Bratislava with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, to veto Ukraine's entry into NATO, Denys Shmyhal. The populist leader believes that its integration into the Atlantic Alliance “would only be a basis for the Third World War, nothing more” because, in his opinion, it is “not an independent and sovereign country” but is “under total influence” and United States control.
Fico, who returned to power in Slovakia after last September's elections in which he ran again as a candidate for the left-wing populist Smer party on a promise to stop arms shipments to Kiev, blocked his possible entry into NATO and opposed sanctions against Russia recommended that Ukrainian leaders give up some of their territory to end the invasion.
“There has to be some compromise,” Fico told Slovak public broadcaster RTVS last Saturday. “Why do they expect the Russians to give up Crimea, Donbas and Luhansk? “That’s unrealistic.”
The Slovak Prime Minister, who is pro-Slavic and pro-Russian, reiterated that, in line with his statements, his government would “not send weapons” to Ukraine, which he again described as “one of the most corrupt countries in the world.” Hungarian, Viktor Orban.
Fico himself is governing this time in a coalition with Hlas, a moderate social democratic formation that split off from Smer, and the ultranationalist Slovak National Party (SNS) – its leader Andrey Dankosaid that Russian-occupied territories were “historically not Ukrainian” – was forced to resign in 2018 after the journalist’s murder scandal Jan Kuciakwhich investigated the links between his second government and the Calabrian mafia.
The head of Slovakia's executive branch, opposed in Brussels by the group of European Socialists that decided to suspend Smer's militancy, last week defended Orbán's blocking of the EU's aid package for Ukraine worth 50 billion euros. “I will never agree that a country is punished for fighting for its sovereignty. “I will never agree to such an attack on Hungary,” Fico said afterwards.