“Ok. Come to kyiv on Friday,” Volodymyr Zelensky responded laconically on X (formerly Twitter). He had previously accused the Slovak of “opaque shenanigans with Moscow”.
If Mr. Fico did not come to the meeting, the opponent Michal Simecka, leader of the liberal and pro-European Progressive Slovakia party seized the opportunity.
“It’s Friday. We were supposed to come, so here I am,” he joked on Facebook, posting a photo showing him in an emblematic square in kyiv.
The objective of this visit is to “reopen the door that Robert Fico slammed with his outbursts of aggression”, assured the opponent.
-“We are ready to help the Slovak people with energy stability,” Mr. Zelensky for his part declared, without further details.
Michal Simecka “thanked” the Ukrainian troops for their fight for the “freedom” and “security” of the whole of Europe, and supported Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, demanded by kyiv .