Once again, his own people beckoned to Viktor Orbán’s good ally

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Slovaks, angered by their government’s refusal to provide military aid to Ukraine, raised nearly 2 million euros to use the aid to buy ammunition for Kiev – Sky News reported.

In the war that has been going on for more than two years, Ukraine urgently needs ammunition, the Slovak government led by Robert Fico, which traditionally maintains good allied relations with Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian government, refused to join the initiative launched by the Czech government, in the framework of which hundreds of thousands of artillery shells would buy for Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire on Russian positions with a 152-millimeter 2Sz3 Akacia self-propelled gun on the front line near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on March 25, 2024.
Photo: MTI/AP

When I heard about the initiative of the Czech government, I was very happy to hear that they are trying in every way to help Ukraine defend itself against the aggressor, because there is no other option, said Otto Simko, a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor and journalist who is the head of the Slovak crowdfunding campaign. was one of its leaders. In the video, he emphasized that Russia must be expelled from Ukraine.

Despite the re-election of Robert Fico and his government, he is facing significant headwinds, as we wrote about earlier, a significant part of the Slovak intelligentsia seeks refuge in the Czech Republic from Fico’s policies: