Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Saturday stated the one approach to finish Russia’s warfare in opposition to Ukraine is for Kyiv to surrender a few of its territory to the invaders, as he reiterated his opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine.
“There must be some sort of compromise,” Fico instructed public broadcaster RTVS on Saturday, in response to media experiences. “What do they count on, that the Russians will go away Crimea, Donbas and Luhansk? That is unrealistic,” he stated.
The professional-Russia prime minister took energy in December after his leftist-populist Smer get together gained September’s election with guarantees to cease sending weapons to Ukraine, to dam Kyiv’s potential NATO membership and to oppose sanctions on Russia.
Fico reiterated his opposition to Ukraine’s bid to hitch NATO in Saturday’s interview, which got here forward of a deliberate assembly of the Slovak chief with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Wednesday.
“I’ll inform him that I’m in opposition to the membership of Ukraine in NATO and that I’ll veto it,” Fico stated, referring to Shmyhal. “It might merely be a foundation for World Conflict III, nothing else,” Fico added, in response to the experiences.
“Ukraine is just not an impartial and sovereign nation,” Fico charged. Ukraine “is below the full affect and management of the USA,” he stated.
“I’ll affirm that he won’t obtain any weapons” from the Slovak authorities, Fico stated, accusing Ukraine of being “some of the corrupt nations on the planet.”
Fico final week expressed help for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in blocking a €50 billion EU support bundle for Ukraine in December. “I’ll by no means agree {that a} nation needs to be punished for preventing for its sovereignty. I’ll by no means agree with such an assault on Hungary,” Fico stated on Tuesday throughout a joint press convention with Orbán in Budapest.
Slovakia’s Tradition Ministry additionally introduced it is going to resume cooperation with Russia and Belarus, after it was suspended in March 2022 following Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
