"It's a betrayal": Slovakia reacts sharply to Fico's trip to Putin

Slovakia has criticized Prime Minister Robert Fico, who arrived in Moscow on Sunday, December 22, to meet Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on the carpet. The prime minister was told that negotiations on gas transit should have been conducted with Ukraine, not Russia.

The trip to Putin was called a betrayal of national interests. This was reported by Aktuality.sk.

Thus, the leader of the opposition party "Progressive Slovakia" Michal Šimečka called the trip a disgrace for Slovakia. According to him, Fico is making the country a propaganda tool for the aggressor country.

"If the prime minister was really concerned about gas transit, he should have negotiated with the Ukrainian side, instead of making Slovakia an instrument of Russian propaganda," the MP said.

Meanwhile, Ivan Korčok, a member of the Presidium of the opposition party Progressive Slovakia, called the trip a "turning point" in the country's foreign policy. No one in the European Union supported Fico's request to maintain gas transit through Ukraine.

"After the failure in Brussels at the EU summit, when no one in the European Union supported his request to preserve gas transit through Ukraine, the prime minister went to stand next to the Russian president. This is a betrayal of allies and Slovakia, a gap in our foreign policy for which the Prime Minister has no mandate," Korčok summarized.

Bronislav Gröhling, leader of the Freedom and Solidarity Party, also reacted to Fico's talks with Putin. The MP called the head of the Slovak government a collaborator and said that the country was thus "in international isolation."

"We are sending a message to Vladimir Putin and all pro-Russian politicians that Robert Fico does not speak for the entire nation," Gröhling summarized.

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