Slovakia has till now been a staunch supporter of Kyiv since Russia invaded in February final 12 months, donating hands and opening its borders for refugees fleeing the warfare.
ADVERTISEMENTSlovakia’s new High Minister, Robert Fico, introduced on Thursday that he would forestall handing over hands to Ukraine, proscribing give a boost to for his neighbour to “humanitarian and civilian help”.”We see help to Ukraine only as humanitarian and civilian help, and we will be able to now not provide Ukraine with hands”, Fico declared, the day after his appointment as head of a coalition govt that features a pro-Russian far-right birthday celebration.”The warfare in Ukraine isn’t ours, now we have not anything to do with it”, he added.In his view, “an instantaneous halt to army operations is the most efficient resolution for Ukraine. The EU must transfer from being an hands provider to a peacemaker”.The Kremlin in an instant reacted to this announcement, taking part in down its significance.”Slovakia’s proportion of hands deliveries [to Kyiv] was once certainly no longer that fab, and because of this this will likely hardly ever impact the entire procedure”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov informed the clicking, earlier than as soon as once more accusing the USA of fuelling the warfare by means of serving to Ukraine.All through his statements to MEPs, Fico additionally introduced that he would no longer give a boost to new sanctions towards Russia “till now we have analysed their affect on Slovakia”.”If such sanctions are going to hurt us, as is the case with maximum sanctions, I see no reason why to give a boost to them”, he insisted.
