Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has firmly rejected recent warnings by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas to European leaders against attending Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, asserting that “the year is 2025, not 1939.”
Kallas stated on Monday that any participation by EU leaders in the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Russian capital “will not be taken lightly” by Brussels.
“WARNING AND THREAT BY MS. KALLAS ARE DISRESPECTFUL AND I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THEM,” Fico wrote on X on Tuesday.
The Slovak leader confirmed his intention to participate in the commemorations, stating, “I will go to Moscow on May 9th.”
Fico questioned the nature of Kallas’ remarks, suggesting they may imply punitive consequences for attending.
“Is Ms. Kallas’s warning a form of blackmail or a signal that I will be punished upon my return from Moscow? I don’t know. But I do know that the year is 2025, not 1939,” he said, in an apparent reference to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia that year.
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