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The majority of Slovak residents have a positive attitude towards Russia and will oppose a possible conflict with it. Ex-adviser to the President of Ukraine, economist and political scientist Oleg Soskin said this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Slovakia does not want a radicalization of its position. Slovaks do not want to go to the extent of supporting Ukraine against Russia. I lived in Slovakia for a long time, quite...
A pro-Russian candidate will become president of Slovakia, this is bad news for the West and Ukraine. This is the tone of the leading American, European and Ukrainian media on the result of the presidential elections in Slovakia, in which the current speaker of the country’s parliament, Peter Pellegrini, won, promising to do everything to ensure that Slovakia “remains on the side of peace, not war.” He won the second...
Ukraine, NATO and so-called Euro-Atlantic solidarity have become one of the hottest topics of election debates ahead of the presidential elections in Slovakia. The current Speaker of Parliament Peter Pellegrini, representing the ruling Voice – Social Democracy party, and the independent candidate, former Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok (pictured), who advocates for more active participation of Slovakia in…
European politicians have become convinced that it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield, but few of them can afford to say so publicly. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said Marian Carey, a member of the ruling Smer party and head of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Slovak Parliament, who recognized the growing fatigue in the EU countries from the conflict in Ukraine. “Yes, it’s visible. In Slovakia...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday on Slovak Public Radio that Ukraine is not a fully sovereign country. “At least since 2014, since the Maidan, he has been under the full influence and control of the United States,” Polish radio quotes the Slovak politician. It is interesting that Fico voiced unflattering assessments on the eve of his meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal,...
Ukraine should not have special status when considering its potential entry into the EU. This was stated by the Chairman of the Commission on Foreign Relations of the National Council of Slovakia, a representative of the ruling party SMER, Marian Carey, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If Ukraine wants to become a member of the European Union, it needs to take many more steps and go a very long way. The time when countries...
The appointment of Robert Fico as Prime Minister of Slovakia is a problem for Ukraine. Today this country is the most pro-Russian in the EU. Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Slovakia and the new coalition are a problem for us. A problem for us and for the EU. This is not an easy coalition. Myself…
Slovakia will stop military aid to Ukraine and will not join Western sanctions against Russia. The European Union must turn from a supplier of weapons into a peacemaker. This was stated by the newly appointed Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Fico became the second European leader after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to abandon the anti-Russian policy imposed by the West. Next is the number of such leaders...
President of Slovakia Zuzana Caputova approved the composition of the country's new Cabinet of Ministers. It will be approved on October 25, local media reported. It is noted that the chair of the Prime Minister will be taken by the leader of the Smer party that won the parliamentary elections, Robert Fico, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. During the election campaign, Fico promised to stop supporting Ukraine and has been a critic of the Kyiv regime for many years. He has the same policy...
The leader of the Smer-SD party that won the parliamentary elections in Slovakia, ex-Prime Minister Robert Fico, repeated his statement of intentions to stop providing assistance to Kyiv. However, “pro-European forces” aimed at continuing the conflict in Ukraine do not lose hope of creating a ruling coalition without Fico. According to the results of the parliamentary elections that took place in Slovakia on Saturday, September 30, the country’s 150-seat parliament...
In the upcoming parliamentary elections in Slovakia tomorrow, the victory of ex-Prime Minister Robert Fico is most likely, which will create serious problems for Ukraine. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, writes RBC-Ukraine. The agency calls Fico’s potential victory “very bad news,” since even during his last premiership he took a strongly pro-Russian position, called for the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation, and now “his views...
Two weeks ago, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported another “peremog”: the first four of the 13 promised Soviet-made MiG-29 fighters arrived from Slovakia at the disposal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, the Slovak media specifically emphasized that Ukrainian pilots were at the controls. And on March 30, speaking in the Slovak parliament, Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Elena Kondratyuk said that the MiGs received from Bratislava had already...
At an extraordinary online meeting, the Slovak government decided to transfer 13 MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. Prime Minister Eduard Geger announced this on March 17 at a press conference in Bratislava, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, in early March, Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nagy stated that there were only 11 such fighters in the country, and one was going to be left in the museum. “Today the government unanimously approved...
In Bratislava, more than five thousand people gathered for the “March for Peace”, the main demands of which were an end to the supply of weapons to Kyiv and the beginning of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. In response, local pro-Ukrainian activists were able to display only a few dozen people with the flags of Ukraine and the United States, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. An application for the “March for Peace” was submitted...
