MADRID 30 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Slovakia’s Defense Minister, Robert Kalinak, said this Sunday that Ukraine may have to give up part of its territory to achieve peace with its neighbor Russia.
“Ukraine is probably unaware that it will never be located between Germany and Switzerland, but will always share its longest border with Russia. Here it is beyond any doubt who the aggressor is, because Russia has crossed all the rules and violated International Law, but It is also necessary to perceive what is happening in other areas and if we have the same standard for other disputes,” he said in an interview with the TA3 television network.
Kalinak has defended that Slovakia is interested in seeing the war in Ukraine end quickly, advocating negotiations and a ceasefire. “For us, the greatest interest is that the war stops immediately and that there is some kind of peace negotiation, some kind of truce, in which we can all, of course, participate in some way. But it is important that people stop dying,” he stressed.
The Slovak Defense Minister made these statements after this Saturday the Prime Minister, Robert Fico, offered his country to host a future peace negotiation between Ukraine and Russia, an offer that the Kremlin described as “one of the options.”
“If someone tells us that they want to organize peace negotiations in Slovakia on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, they can count on our hospitality,” Fico said in a video message posted on social media on Friday.
The head of the Slovak Executive discussed the proposal with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, when he met with him last Sunday during a surprise visit to Moscow.
These statements are framed in a context of tensions between both countries since kyiv promised to interrupt the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory starting next January 1, with the aim of limiting Moscow’s financing.
In response to the announcement, Fico threatened Zelensky on Friday, stating that his country could stop supplying electricity to Ukraine. “After January 1, we will evaluate the situation and the possibilities of reciprocal measures against Ukraine. If it is unavoidable, we will stop the supply that Ukraine needs during network outages. Or we will agree on a different course of action,” he declared.