MFA disappointed by Fico's statement about ‘Nazis’ in Ukraine

The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Georgiy Tykhyi, said that the latest statement by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico about the Ukrainian military contradicts the ‘level of trust and cooperation’ between the two countries.

The Foreign Ministry's press service published the comment on the evening of 9 September.

According to Tykhyi, Kyiv is ‘disappointed with Fico's statement’ against Ukrainian soldiers who are defending their homeland and Europe from Russian invaders.

‘For Ukrainians, countering Russian aggression is a continuation of the history of our people's resistance to totalitarian regimes in the last century. In the twentieth century, the Ukrainian people suffered multimillion-dollar losses in the fight against Nazism,’ the spokesman reminded.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman also recalled the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, during which the Nazis exterminated about one and a half million Ukrainian Jews, and more than 2,600 Ukrainians are listed as Righteous Among the Nations.

‘We count on the united efforts of Slovakia and all our European partners in countering the latest Russian evil, which has brought to the Ukrainian land atrocities unprecedented since the Second World War,’ Tychy said.

He also reiterated Kyiv's readiness for further constructive dialogue, ‘which is in line with the traditionally warm and good-neighbourly relations between the Slovak and Ukrainian peoples’.

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 10/09/2024