in Slovakia, the prime minister was called a traitor – World

The public initiative “For Peace in Ukraine” is organizing a protest on Monday, December 23.

The first personal meeting of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico with Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2016 caused a sharp negative reaction from opposition political forces and the public.

This was reported by the Slovak publication Aktuality.

Ivan Korchok, a member of the presidium of the opposition party “Progressive Slovakia”, former head of Slovak diplomacy, called Robert Fico's trip a betrayal and a turning point in Slovak foreign policy.

“After the fiasco in Brussels at the EU summit, when no one in the European Union supported him with a request to preserve gas transit through Ukraine, the prime minister went to stand next to the Russian president. This is a betrayal of the Allies and Slovakia, this is a turning point in our foreign policy, which…