He received them on Wednesday at the government office, as documented by the photos published on Fico facebook. “I met the descendants of the direct participants of the SNP and the liberation struggles in Slovakia. These are young people from the Russian Federation and Belarus who came to Slovakia at my invitation,” said Fico.
The head of the Slovak government claims that the Ukrainian side also received the same invitation, but “this invitation was not implemented in the form of a visit of young people from Ukraine.”
According to available information, the ambassador of the Russian Federation will also participate in Thursday’s events in Banská Bystrica. The non-parliamentary party Democrats claim that representatives of the diplomatic missions of some Western countries refused an invitation to Banská Bystrica because of Russian and Belarusian participation.
According to the Democrats, the invitation of the Russian ambassador Igor Bratčikov is trampling on the legacy of the SNP and his participation casts a bad light on Slovakia in the international context.
Democrats called on the government to rescind the invitation for the Russian ambassador. “There is no difference between Hitler and Putin. I call on the government to immediately rescind the invitation to the ambassador of Russia, who represents the aggressor. It is absurd insolence of the coarsest grain, after all, the government he represents is still killing innocent Ukrainians today,” stated the chairman of the Democrats, Jaroslav Naď.
There will be an attack and our voters will deal with you, Fico threatens
Europe
