Slovakia honors the struggle of Ukraine for the sovereignty of its own territoryand therefore calls on the Ukrainian side not to seek any other explanation of what the SR openly declared. Slovak diplomacy is always ready to communicate with the Ukrainian party and provide its undistorted information, will therefore appreciate if it directly appeals to her in additional doubts. This is stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs (MZVEZ) SR In response to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Heorhija Tychyja. Criticizes deliberate Tinging out of context and handling.
The Ministry of Diplomacy pointed out that Minister Juraj Blanár (Smer-SD) on Wednesday (10 September) provided a clear opinion for the Slovak Republic in which condemned the disturbance of the area of the alliance partner – Poland – drones. “The Government of the Slovak Republic does not relieve the Russian Federation of Liability, as stated by a spokesman for Ukrainian diplomacy, but calls for a responsible approach in assessing this incident,“He stated the Communication Department of the Ministry, pointing out that Slovakia fully supported the Polish side, which initiated consultations under Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
The Ministry has repeated, that Russia has no right to drain drones and missiles to any country. Similarly, the minister repeatedly stressed that Russia has violated international law and war in Ukraine has no military solution. “We honor the struggle of Ukraine for the sovereignty of our own territory, and therefore we call on the Ukrainian side so that it does not look for another explanation of what the SR openly declared,” the Ministry of Diplomacy said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian side recalled that “Every reasonable government” would not harm its own interests by attacking the Druzhba pipeline from which it itself receives benefitsthrough products that the Slovak refinery also produces for Ukraine.
Ukraine in response to Wednesday’s statements of Blanar on Thursday She called on Slovakia not to question Russia’s responsibility For Wednesday (10. 9.) disturbance of the Polish airspace. “A large number of Russian drones flew into the Polish airspace. This is an empirical factthat does not require faith, ”said Tychyi at a press conference. Such massive disturbance of the borders of Russian drones could not be accidental, it is a fully deliberate escalation by Russia.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry responded to Blanar’s words according to which The Minister “wants to believe that the drones that penetrated the Polish territory were drones that went there not to attack Poland, but were to end up in Ukrainian territory“. In addition, Blanár said that Slovakia considers the disruption of the Polish airspace to be a serious deterioration and escalation of the situation and expressed our neighbor in solidarity.
