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President of Ukraine invited Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico to visit Kyiv

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico to visit Kyiv on Friday.

“Good. Come to Kyiv on Friday,” Zelensky wrote on social media platform X, attaching an invitation to Fico, in which he invited the Ukrainian president to a meeting near the state border between Slovakia and Ukraine.

As reported, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a meeting near the state border between Slovakia and Ukraine. Fico announced his invitation during a video message to Zelensky posted on Fico’s Facebook page.

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Former Prime Minister Robert Fico’s party wins elections in Slovakia

The opposition Social Democratic Party “Course – New Democracy” of former Prime Minister Robert Fico has won the parliamentary elections in Slovakia held on Saturday, the republic’s statistics office said.

According to data from 95.75% of polling stations, it gained 23.58% of the vote, while the liberal Progressive Slovakia party, led by Vice President of the European Parliament Michal Šimečka, received 16.37%.

As noted in exit polls, the far-right has apparently managed to overcome the five percent threshold, and will now be represented in the Slovak parliament.

Fico is known as a politician who opposes the continuation of arms supplies to Ukraine. He also claimed that the West’s anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective and promised to use his veto over Ukraine’s NATO membership application. Shimechka is his opposite, holding liberal and pro-Western views and promising voters to deepen European cooperation, The Guardian notes.

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