MADRID Jan 12 () –
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, criticized this Sunday the vacation taken by the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, with whom he has been involved in bitter exchanges of statements for weeks, and denounced the “dark intrigues” that link the head of the Slovak government with Russia.
Fico, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in December, accused Zelensky two weeks ago of “sabotaging” the finances of the European Union with his constant requests for aid and the impact of Russian gas cuts.
The prime minister has just enjoyed a holiday abroad, as confirmed by the Slovak Presidency, after the NGO Slovak Media Monitor assured, according to geolocation data, that he had spent several nights at the luxurious Capella Hanoi hotel in Vietnam. Slovak President Peter Pellegrini did not give details about the location.
Now, Zelensky has ironically commented on the controversy unleashed by Fico. “I think it’s very good that the Slovak Prime Minister has finally returned from his vacation in a luxurious hotel in Vietnam and is now in Bratislava. It must have been quite a challenge to go from living in luxury to trying to correct his own mistakes,” the Ukrainian president has declared on his social network X account.
“It seems to me that Fico made a clear mistake in believing that his dark intrigues with Moscow could continue indefinitely,” he added before ensuring that Ukraine offered all its help to the Slovak people during the period of adaptation to the absence of the transit of Russian gas and that the Slovak Prime Minister rejected the gesture “in an arrogant manner.”
“Many in Europe warned him that doing nothing and waiting was not an option. Now, he resorts to public relations, lies and loud accusations to deflect blame from himself to someone else. But the real problem is that bet on Moscow, not on his own country, not on a united Europe and, certainly, not on common sense. From the beginning, it was a losing bet,” Zelensky concluded.
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