Fico said his position towards Ukraine has not changed.
The leader of the pro-Russian party “Course – Social Democracy” (Smer-SD), which received first place in the number of votes in the early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, Robert Fico said that his country has more important problems than Ukraine .
Fico said this on Sunday, October 1, at a press conference, writes Reuters.
The Prime Minister said that he said Slovakia “has bigger problems than Ukraine” and assured , which will do everything possible to start peace negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, adding that his position has not changed.
“We believe that (the situation in Ukraine. – Ed.) is a huge tragedy for everyone. If the Smer-SD party is tasked with forming a government (…), we will do everything possible to ensure that peace negotiations take place as quickly as possible,” the politician said.
We would like to remind you that in the elections in Slovakia, according to preliminary according to the vote counts, the pro-Russian party of ex-Prime Minister Robert Fico won.
CNN recalled that Fico does not hide his sympathies for the Kremlin and blames the mythical “Ukrainian Nazis” for provoking dictator Putin to launch an invasion, repeating the false narratives of the Russian Federation.
Meanwhile, the pro-Russian Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban congratulated his like-minded friend Robert Fico on his victory in the elections and said that he was “pleased to work with patriots.”
Also the head of the Slovak of the Glas party, which took third place in the elections, Peter Pellegrini said that military assistance to Ukraine was “no longer on the table.”
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