The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on Monday ruled out any concession of territories to Russia, a measure proposed as a “compromise” by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico just days before a meeting with his counterpart in Kyiv, Ukrainian Pravda reports.
“There can be no compromise on territorial integrity. Not for Ukraine, not for Slovakia, not for any other country,” Ukrainian MFA spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said in an interview.
He added that Ukraine and its partners are making efforts to expel Russians from Crimea, Donbass and Luhansk, so that they do not go further to Košice, Pryšiv and other regions of Slovakia.
“Let’s be frank: without security in Ukraine, there will be no security in Slovakia or in Europe as a whole. We must work together to bring Ukraine’s victory closer,” the Ukrainian official emphasized in what appears to be Kyiv’s first position regarding Robert Fizo’s comments made last weekend.
The Prime Minister of Slovakia stated that he intends to block Ukraine’s candidacy for NATO
In a comment to Slovakia’s public radio station on Saturday, Fico said that he intends to block Ukraine’s efforts to join NATO and will inform his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmigal about this during a meeting with him on January 24.
Fico called Ukraine a state under “full US influence” and also said it would have to cede part of its territory to Russia as a “compromise” to achieve peace.
“There has to be some kind of compromise that will be very painful for both sides. What do they expect? [Ucraina], that the Russians will leave Crimea, Donbas and Luhansk? This is unreal,” he said.
Also last week, Fico said at a press conference he held in Budapest with Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the war in Ukraine “does not have a military solution” and that the West’s current strategy of supporting Kyiv is not working.
The Prime Minister of Slovakia reduced military aid to Ukraine
Fico announced a cut in Slovakia’s military aid to Ukraine immediately after being sworn in for a fourth term following parliamentary elections on September 30.
Before that, tiny Slovakia had been one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters since the start of the Russian invasion, approving massive military aid to Kyiv. If we talk about the cost of aid packages in relation to the population, then Slovakia would be one of the most important partners of Ukraine.
Among other things, last March, Bratislava announced that it would send modernized MiG-29 fighters to Kyiv. Slovakia thus became only the second country to commit to sending military aircraft to Ukraine, with Bratislava’s announcement coming only a day after Warsaw’s.
During the election campaign, he picked up several leitmotifs of Russian propaganda, declaring, for example, that “the war in Ukraine started not a year ago, but in 2014, when Ukrainian Nazis and fascists started killing Russian citizens in Donbas and Luhansk.”
Fico also praised the Soviet Union for allegedly liberating Czech and Slovak territories from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. “For God’s sake, they freed us, we must respect,” he urged his countrymen.
“We must tell the whole world that freedom came from the East, war always comes from the West,” he added.
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