President of Slovakia announces “territorial concessions”
Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said that Ukraine “must make territorial concessions for the sake of peace.” The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reacted sharply to this.
This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing his post on the social network X.
“The last time Slovak lands were given to the aggressor in the name of peace, it did not end well and did not bring peace to either the Slovaks or other nations,” Tychy emphasized.
He may have been referring to the events of 1938, when Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia) was drawn into the Munich Agreement. At that time, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, without Czechoslovakia's participation, agreed to transfer the Sudetenland (inhabited mainly by Germans) to Germany in exchange for promises of peace from Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, the policy of “appeasement of the aggressor” ended in war.
Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 17/12/2024
