Slovak PM Fico reminds NATO of Putin's warning as Macron, Starmer decide to send troops to Ukraine

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico reiterates that Slovakia will send “no soldier, no weapons, no war loan” to Ukraine, rejecting any multinational force on Ukrainian territory and warning that foreign troops would become “legitimate targets,” while arguing that real peace efforts are being sabotaged and that a strategy of prolonging the war to weaken Russia will only produce “hundreds of thousands of dead” without changing the outcome. He says Slovakia could support only a ceasefire‑monitoring mission, opposes Ukraine’s NATO membership as a key condition for any settlement, and insists that although Slovaks have shown solidarity and provided major aid relative to GDP, the conflict is being used to “settle scores with the Russian Federation” at Ukraine’s expense, a mistake he vows to keep denouncing openly as Bratislava prepares to lead a more activist Visegrad Group presidency.