@mib_messageinabottle · Post #6770 · 05/15/2024, 02:40 PM
#Slovakian prime minister Robert #Fico shot and rushed to hospital after ‘attempted assassination’ Fico was shot in the town of #Handlova with a man detained at the scene •In 2022 and 2023, Fico was a loud critic of the #VonderLeyen Commission and her foreign and #military policies in relation to #Russian invasion of #Ukraine. He also expressed disagreements with the Commission in questions of #immigration. •In December 2023, Fico criticized the "hypocrisy" of the EU, which was reluctant to talk about #Israeli#WarCrimes in #Gaza •In 2023, Fico said #Ukraine's #Azov Battalion was "clearly a #fascist regiment". •During a rally on 30 August, he also said that the War in Donbas started in 2014 when "Ukrainian #Nazis and fascists started murdering the Russian population of #Donbas"