New Slovak government refuses to approve military aid package for Ukraine
$43M package was prepared by outgoing government
ATHENS
The new Slovak government refused to approve a military aid package for Ukraine, local media reported on Wednesday.
The €40.3 million ($43 million) package was prepared by the outgoing government and included four million bullets for rifles, 5,172 pieces of artillery shells, 140 air-defense missiles, eight mortars, and 1,200 mines, said the state-run TASR news agency.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Slovakia provided Ukraine with 13 military aid packages worth €671 million ($716 million).
Slovakia's new Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Oct. 26 that his government will stop military aid to Ukraine.
Fico's leftist SMER party won elections in September on a promise to end military aid to Ukraine, stop immigration, and defend Slovakian sovereignty.
