Ukraine's Foreign Ministry responds to Slovak PM's claim about “Nazis” in Ukraine

Heorhii Tykhyi, the spokesman for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has said that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's latest remark about the Ukrainian military runs counter to the "level of trust and cooperation" between the two countries. Source: European Pravda citing the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Details: Tykhyi said Kyiv was "disappointed with Fico's statement" about Ukrainian soldiers, who are defending their country and Europe from Russian invaders.

"Countering Russian aggression, for Ukrainians, adds to the nation's history of resistance against totalitarian regimes over the last century.

In the twentieth century, the Ukrainian people suffered millions of losses in the fight against Nazism," the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. Tykhyi also mentioned the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, during which the Nazis killed about one and a half million Ukrainian Jews. More than 2,600 Ukrainians are listed as Righteous Among the Nations.

"We rely on the united efforts of Slovakia and all of our European partners to counter the current Russian evil, which has brought atrocities to Ukrainian soil unprecedented since World War II," Tykhyi said.

He also confirmed Kyiv's readiness for further constructive dialogue, "in line with the traditionally warm and good-neighbourly relations between the Slovak and Ukrainian people". Earlier on Monday, during a visit to the Holocaust Museum in the Slovakian city of Sered, Fico claimed that "Nazi troops" are fighting in Ukraine but the international community does not notice. The Slovak prime minister frequently parrots the Russian narrative about the causes of the war in Ukraine in his speeches, including Putin's claim that the current Ukrainian government is running a Nazi state.

In August 2023, then-prime ministerial candidate Fico said that the war in Ukraine began in 2014, "when Ukrainian Nazis and fascists started killing Russian citizens in Donbas and Luhansk".

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