NATO membership for Ukraine is becoming increasingly elusive. The previous U.S. administration has been silently opposing extending a NATO invitation to Ukraine. The current U.S. administration has made its opposition public.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to block the European Union summit on Thursday to approve financial and military aid to Ukraine, Česke Novyny reports.

Slovakia is likely to face elevated borrowing costs until the government reins in the budget deficit and the war in neighboring Ukraine comes to an end, according to the country’s debt management chief.

The EU, following the example of the United States, may also ask Ukraine to return the money spent on its support. This was stated by the vice-speaker of the Slovak parliament, the head of the SNS party (Slovak National Party) Andrei Danko.

Necessary conditions must be met first as there is still some uncertainty about guarantees that will ensure sustainability of such measure, says Peter Pellegrini - Anadolu Ajansı

I refuse to support the war in Ukraine and so I don't agree with military or financial support for that country, said Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Monday in the context of the planned European Union (EU) summit in Brussels,

Almost all the gas that Ukraine buys on the EU market is of Russian origin, said Premier Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Monday ahead of Thursday's (March 6) EU summit in Brussels, adding that Slovakia will propose that an explicit request to Ukraine to resume the transit of Russian or other gas through its territory should be included in the summit's conclusions.

Most EU member states, including Slovakia, voted in favour, while Hungary, Israel and the United States voted against.

The concert, which has been staged annually since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, will be held in Bratislava's Main Square on 16 March

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that "strong Ukraine-U.S. relations benefit the entire world," an apparent attempt to calm tensions with Washington after he and U.S. President Donald Trump traded barbs this week over efforts to end Russia's three-year war on Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized the need for robust security guarantees to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine during his visit to Slovakia. He stressed that any agreement must ensure Russia refrains from further territorial ambitions.