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Fico ‘allows’ Germany, France to aid Ukraine
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If big countries decide to aid Ukraine [fighting Russia], no veto by Slovakia or Hungary can prevent them from doing so, pro-Putin Slovak PM Robert Fico said on the Slovak public radio SRo on Saturday.

Commenting on the outcome of the EU’s emergency summit held in Brussels earlier this week, Fico said he’d wanted ‘any mention’ of the resumption of the Russian gas transit via Ukraine to be included in the summit’s final statement. Unlike his fellow Putin supporter, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, Fico joined other EU leaders who voted to boost the bloc’s defence capabilities and continue supporting Ukraine.

“I decided not to prevent Germany, France, or anyone else from sending money,” Fico told SRo, as if he had any power over their decisions.

Fico’s vote at the summit was criticised by his ruling coalition partner, the leader of the nationalist SNS party, Andrej Danko, who won’t admit that Russia is the aggressor in the war in Ukraine.

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Fico Never Lets You Down
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Twenty six out of 27 EU leaders, including Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, approved a joint statement on Europe’s rearmament and continued aid to Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
Despite flexing muscles at home for weeks ahead of the emergency summit, the pro-Putin Slovak PM did not vote against the summit conclusions, leaving only his equally confused friend, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, to play the role of the bad boy/useful idiot. Before leaving for Brussels, Fico, long blaming Ukraine for cutting off Russian gas transit through its territory, allegedly causing massive financial losses to Slovakia, told Slovak MPs on the parliamentary EU affairs committee that he would veto the conclusions unless they included guarantees for the resumption of Russian gas transit.
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WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT! “Member states have recognised that the cancellation of transit through Ukraine is a problem that threatens the entire EU.”