Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has declared that Slovakia will block Ukraine’s accession to NATO, citing concerns that it could be the trigger for World War 3. Fico, who had expressed reservations about Ukraine’s NATO membership even before recent elections, now claims that he will exercise Slovakia’s veto power to […]
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Ukraine to evacuate children from towns near Kupiansk, ministry says Ukraine said it planned to evacuate hundreds of children from communities near the north-eastern city of Kupiansk, as Russia steps up assaults in the area. Kyiv’s forces recaptured Kupiansk and the surrounding areas of Kharkiv region in September 2022, but […]
The winner of last month’s parliamentary elections in Slovakia has agreed to form a coalition government. Robert Fico’s populist left-wing Smer-SSD party won the vote with pledges to halt military aid to Ukraine, but denied being pro-Russian. Mr Fico – who has previously served as Slovakia’s prime minister – signed […]
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president has refused a plan by her country’s caretaker government to send further military aid to Ukraine, saying it doesn’t have the authority and parties that oppose such support are in talks to form a government following last week’s election. The presidential office said in […]
Cracks are starting to show in the West’s support for Ukraine and its fight against Vladimir Putin’s invasion. During a tense weekend in Washington, as Congress passed a short-term funding package that averted a US government shutdown, politicians dropped a $6billion aid package for Kyiv. Meanwhile Robert Fico, a pro-Moscow populist, won […]
Republicans opposed to the US funding Ukraine’s lifeline against Russia scored their first major success when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy didn’t include a $6 billion request for aid in a stopgap bill that averted a government shutdown. The result, which left President Joe Biden demanding swift action to fulfill Kyiv’s […]
Slovakia’s populist former prime minister, Robert Fico, who campaigned on a pledge to end military aid to Ukraine, has said his position “has not changed” after his party’s clear election win made him favourite to lead the country for a fourth time. Fico told reporters he was waiting for Slovakia’s […]
CNN — A party headed by a pro-Kremlin figure came out top after securing more votes than expected in an election in Slovakia, preliminary results show, in what could pose a challenge to NATO and EU unity on Ukraine. According to preliminary results released by Slovakia’s Statistical Office at 9 […]