
The Prime Minister of Slovakia ruled out the participation of the military in a possible conflict with the Russian Federation due to NATO provocations
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Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico commented on NATO collective defense issues on the TA3 TV channel.
Slovak soldiers will not participate in a conflict with Russia if one of the NATO members provokes such a conflict, assured Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
“We will respect Article 5 (on NATO collective defense - ed.), but we will not send Slovak soldiers if someone here provokes a war with Russia,” Fico said in an interview with the Slovak TV channel TA3 on Sunday.
He noted that it would be impossible to win such a conflict with conventional weapons.
“It would be possible to end the war with Russia only with a nuclear strike from one side or the other, then no one will worry about what will happen and what will not happen. I, as the chairman of the government, am trying to protect this country,” Fico concluded.
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