The prime minister of Slovakia was the victim of an assassination attempt Wednesday, when he was shot several times in the chest and abdomen. Prime Minister Robert Fico was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and was reported to be “fighting for his life” in surgery several hours later.
Fico was a vocal critic of the West’s open-ended flow of money and military hardware to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Eyewitnesses heard three or four shots ring out after the prime minister was leaving a meeting of his cabinet on Wednesday outside of Bratislava.
There is a video circulating online that shows the moment the attacker was detained, shoved into a black limousine and driven away.
Slovakia is a member of the Western military alliance NATO, having joined in March 2004. However, Slovakia’s current government, along with that of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary, has been highly critical of NATO’s anti-Russia fervor emanating from London, Paris, Berlin and Washington, D.C., and has stood against the idea of Ukraine joining NATO.
The two prime ministers have stood against the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, saying it would unnecessarily provoke Russia.
He promised that Slovakia would not support Ukraine's application for NATO membership, calling it "the biggest nonsense";
As early as April 2023, when he was leader of the parliamentary opposition, he declared that he wanted to stop arms deliveries to Ukraine;
Fico said that the country would no longer send military aid from national armed forces' stockpiles to Kiev as a gift;
In November 2023, the Slovak government blocked the allocation of a new military aid package to Ukraine worth 40.3 million euros;
In his opinion, Western military aid to Ukraine is pointless and only leads to an increase in the number of victims of the conflict;
He considers anti-Russian sanctions to be "negatively affecting the residents of Slovakia";
The politician emphasized that he rejects the notion that Russia does not exist: "It was, is, and will be," he stressed.
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