Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico met on Monday, January 20. During the talks, they agreed on the need to establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, according to a joint press conference following the meeting.

"I have no problem with a delegation from Progressive Slovakia going to Kyiv," Fico said in his video message. “If you have no authority or responsibility, you can conduct negotiations even on a space station on Mars.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated that Ukraine must show “respect” toward Hungary and Slovakia, emphasizing that Kiev has no right to “dictate” terms to EU members. Speaking at a press conference in Bratislava on Tuesday after meeting with his Slovak counterpart,

The two leaders did, however, find common ground in opposing Ukraine's accession to NATO, with both claiming that such a move would likely trigger "a direct confrontation with Russia" or even "World War III".

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico agreed on Monday during talks on the need to establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, Erdogan said at a press conference following the meeting.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico will not come to Ukraine, Adviser to the head of the Presidential Office Mykhailo Podoliak said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated that Ukraine must show “respect” toward Hungary and Slovakia, emphasizing that Kiev has no right to “dictate” terms to EU members. Speaking at a press conference in Bratislava on Tuesday after meeting with his Slovak counterpart,

BRATISLAVA - Slovakia's opposition accused Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday of laying the groundwork to take the country out of the European Union, but dropped its no-confidence motion to dismiss him and his leftist-nationalist government.

"We offered our assistance to the people of Slovakia during their adaptation to the absence of Russian gas transit, but Fico arrogantly refused," Zelensky said on Jan. 12.

Slovakia is weighing retaliation against Ukraine including withholding aid if a solution is not found to Kyiv's decision to shut off Russian gas, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday after talks with EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen.

Slovak opposition leader Michal Simecka accused Prime Minister Robert Fico of laying the ground to take the country out of the European Union as he launched an attempt to dismiss the leftist-nationalist government in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday.

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.