Fico says Slovakia supports US peace plan for Ukraine
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Photo: Getty Images)
The Slovak government supports the US peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. At the same time, Bratislava reportedly sees good prospects for Russia under this plan, states Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
The Slovak leader called the US peace plan ambitious and boasted that Russia would emerge from it as a complete winner, strengthened morally and economically. Fico believes that Ukraine should agree to this proposal.
“Within the minority that Slovakia represents in the European Union, I will support this agreement,” he said, adding that the US wants to bring Russia back among the great powers.
Fico also believes that the current proposal is worse for Ukraine than the plan discussed in 2022, but he still sees it as a chance for an immediate ceasefire on both sides of the front.
In Hungary, which is friendly toward Russia, the US peace plan is also supported. The country’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, stated recently that the publication of the plan’s 28 points initiates important processes that will eventually lead to organizing a peace summit in Budapest.
US peace plan
US and Russian representatives developed a plan to end the war in Ukraine, consisting of 28 points.
The plan envisions concessions from Ukraine to Moscow: Russian control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as over the occupied territories in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
At the same time, Kyiv would need to reduce the size of its army and abandon the idea of joining NATO. It should be noted that the EU sees the US peace plan as a form of Ukrainian capitulation and is urgently preparing its own version of a ceasefire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has officially received the draft plan from the US and plans to discuss it soon with American President Donald Trump.
