2024-06-09 18:35:15
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was just lately the sufferer of an assassination try, uploaded on his Fb profile a photograph of himself from the hospital the place he voted within the European elections.
“The settlement of the Western international locations to provide Ukraine the appropriate to make use of Western weapons to assault targets on Russian territory is barely proof that the key Western democracies are not looking for peace, however an escalation of tensions with the Russian Federation, which will definitely occur,” he wrote. the Slovak Prime Minister on his Fb profile.
🇸🇰 “I cannot drag the nation into such army adventures … I’ll do the whole lot to make sure that peace has precedence over battle.”
🗣️ Slovak Prime Minister Fico:
I voted within the hospital as a result of these elections are additionally essential. It’s essential to vote for European deputies… pic.twitter.com/1Bza5KzT1g
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 8, 2024
He referred to as for voting for MEPs who would assist peace initiatives and never the continuation of the battle.
“Because the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, I cannot contain Slovakia in such army adventures and throughout the framework of our small Slovak potentialities, I’ll do the whole lot attainable to provide peace precedence over battle,” he additionally wrote.
An assailant shot Fico with 4 bullets at shut vary because the prime minister greeted supporters within the central Slovak city of Handlova on Could 15, the place he had come for a authorities assembly. Fifty-nine-year-old Fico was hit within the abdomen and brought to the hospital in Banska Bistrica in a severe situation. He instantly underwent greater than 5 hours of surgical procedure and one other two days later. The attacker was arrested on the scene and charged with tried homicide.