"#Slovakia is facing an 'extremely dangerous' security situation, with high-ranking officials citing the presence of active foreign agents operating within the country. This alarming development comes on the heels of numerous threats directed at constitutional officials and politicians, who are now under heightened protection, according to Interior Minister Matusz Szutaj Esztok
ℹ #Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert #Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after being shot several times, the deputy prime minister has said
Tomas Taraba told the #BBC Mr #Fico's surgery had gone "well" and "I guess that at the end he will survive"
Earlier the #defense minister said Mr @fico was "fighting for his life" after being gravely injured in an attack in the small town of #Handlova
A suspect was detained at the scene of the #shooting
CRIMEA MASSIVE ATTACK: BELBEK AIRFIELD ON FIRE & ROBERT FICO ATTEMPT
by #AnnafromUkraine
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Russian airfield in #Belbek, #Crimea has been struck by Ukrainian missile attack.
Assassination attempt on Robert #Fico, Prime minister of #Slovakia.
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Anna Danylchuk is a professor of linguistics at Volyn National University in Lutsk, she vlogs every day, giving a perspective of an Ukrainian from inside war-torn #Ukraine.
Reports that president of #Slovakia gravely injured in apparent assassination attempt.
This sort of thing has big security implications in that it is an Eastern European NATO and EU member state, although #Fico is considered a pro-Russian populist.
[The Bell, Telegram] An unknown assailant shot several times at Slovak Prime Minister Fico
An assassination attempt was made on the life of the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, who occupies a conditionally pro-Russian position. An unknown person shot him as he left a building in the town of Gandlova. The shooter has been detained.
UPD. The prime minister's condition is preliminary and he is in hospital, where he was taken by helicopter.
In #Slovakia, Robert #Fico’s government has shunned the independent press and wants to remake the public broadcaster into a state-run TV channel that could soon be run by a flat-earther.
#Slovakia’s nationalist prime minister, Robert #Fico, is moving ahead with a law targeting non-governmental organisations that critics say is inspired by #Hungary’s crackdown on civil rights groups.
Fico’s coalition, on Tuesday passed the draft law. Under the bill, NGOs that receive more than €5,000 a year in foreign funding must be registered as “organisations with foreign support” and list their donors.
🇸🇰🇺🇦 A crowdfunding campaign in #Slovakia to buy artillery shells for #Ukraine has exceeded its target of €1m, less than 48 hours after it was launched.
The campaign is a response to the Slovak cabinet's refusal to join an initiative by the Czech government to buy up hundreds of thousands of shells for the Ukrainian armed forces.
@sesivany I’m young, but even so I’m already sick and tired of trying to convince the greater half of our population that they are choosing thieves, mobsters and murderers over imaginary threats. Progress and liberalism has become swear words in the mouth of people vitally dependent on the money flowing from the EU. My only schadenfreude is that the idiotic mass will be the first to feel the negative consequences of their choices.
@tylnesh there is no rational way to convince them because it's all based on emotions. Only the way out of it is a long-term education, so that people are not easy targets of this in the future.
We share the same problem. Here a lot of people fall for the same shit, too. Just the degree of the problem is different. And we're not out of the woods with Babiš and his 30+% in polls either. Democracy requires a neverending fight for its protection.
#Slovakia plans to be coal-free by 2024, 6 years earlier than originally planned
Slovakia stopped production at its last coal-fired power plant this week. Its electricity will now come almost entirely from #nuclear and #renewables sources. The Vojany power station, located in the Michalovce district in eastern Slovakia, opened in 1966. Slovenské elektrárne, the company that owns the plant, announced that all of the electricity generated in the Eastern European country will be free of direct CO2 as of June 2024.
Back in 2020, #Slovakia’s then-Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini asked Viktor Orbán to act as a middleman between him and the #Kremlin. He aimed for an invitation to #Moscow just before Slovakia’s parliamentary election – hoping that it would appeal to the Slovak electorate. A piece of intelligence detailing the Slovak–Hungarian–Russian scheme was obtained by VSquare.
There’s now ongoing new narrative being unrolled by #Slovakia prime minister Robert Fico about “many #NATO countries considering sending their troops to #Ukraine”, on which Fico builds his declared refusal.
This single statement is now being hyped on pro-Russian channels (including in Poland) who hysterically (in literal, not figurative sense) scream of “suicide”, “insanity”, presenting it as if NATO forces were already crossing into Belarus.
The problem is that apart from statement from Fico, a political obviously biased and pro-Russian, there’s no single other mention to that effect from anyone in NATO, not a hint.
@kravietz
Not that this is a big statement saying troops will be sent, but I think that's the first time we hear that from a political leader, doesn't it?
As I understand, Macron replied to a question regarding by Fico’s earlier statement.
Whose comment was vague enough on its own - “were considering sending troops” - which is quite normal, as NATO should be considering every possible scenario and discussing the worst case where Russia launches another full-scale invasion on all directions with the risk of collapse of Ukrainian front.
In this aspect someone asking “can we prevent this by sending NATO troops” is rather natural part of the discussion, especially as it was already discussed in 2022 when many people in the West called to “close Ukraine’s sky”. We don’t know what is the outcome of the discussion.
I personally don’t mind, because if Ukraine falls NATO troops will fight Russians in Lithuania and Poland anyway, except this time Russia will have 300’000 more manpower forcibly mobilized in Ukraine.
Fico presenting it as “NATO will send its troops to Ukraine and we’re all going to die” is an outright manipulation and replaying Russian narratives.
