RT reports today that Slovakia’s new Prime Minister Robert Fico has vowed to not support any anti-Russia sanctions without analyzing their impact, while also asserting that there will be no more arms to Ukraine. He also called for a ceasefire.
Speaking at a meeting of the Slovakian parliament’s committee for European affairs on Oct. 26, Fico stated that “as prime minister, I will support zero military aid to Ukraine,” explaining that the position of his government is that “the immediate cessation of military operations is the best solution we have for Ukraine.”
Fico urged the EU to transform itself from “an arms supplier to a peacemaker,” insisting that Ukraine and Russia would be better off negotiating peace for the next ten years than killing each other’s citizens without any positive results.
He also pointed out that the possibility of Russia withdrawing from its newly incorporated territories, i.e., the Crimean peninsula, the Donbass republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, was unrealistic—and that it was naïve to expect to corner a nuclear state using conventional weapons.
