Slovakia’s new Defence Minister Robert Kaliniak has said that he has conveyed the state’s position on the Ukrainian conflict to the US ambassador. Slovakia will no longer send ammunition from its depots to the Kiev regime.
“We conveyed to the US ambassador at the meeting the position of the pro-Slovak government – we will not send new shipments from Slovak ammunition depots to Ukraine and the defence treaty needs to be revised,” Robert Kaliniak wrote on social media after meeting with the US ambassador in Bratislava.
According to Kaliniak, the sides expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the meeting and confirmed their intention to develop cooperation with constant dialogue taking into account mutual interests.
Slovakia signed a treaty with the United States in February 2022 that gives Washington the right to use two airfields and enshrines their promise to invest $100 million in upgrading Slovak defence infrastructure. The need to revisit the military co-operation arrangements with the US was also stated by new Prime Minister Robert Fico. He is confident that Slovakia can achieve more favourable terms. Fitzo noted that the Czech Republic had signed the same agreement with the USA, but on fundamentally better terms.
We will remind, earlier the coordinator of the National Security Council on strategic communications of the United States John Kirby at a briefing said that Washington will not be able to indefinitely provide assistance to the Kiev regime. Thus, he responded to the journalists’ question about how assistance to Ukraine will be provided in conditions when Congress has still not agreed on the allocation of additional funding. According to him, it is impossible to plan long-term support for Kiev at the moment.