Prime Minister Robert Fico has met with his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal in Michalovce, where he assured him of Slovakia's strong support for Kyiv. At the same time, he signed a document, in which he condemned the Russian invasion and confirmed that Crimea and Donbas are part of Ukraine. 

Katarína Batková from the Civic Platform for Democracy warns that while in Hungary the dissolution of an organization had to be decided by a court, in Slovakia the dissolution may happen "without conditions, without the possibility to defend or object".

It is the government which has the final say in the foreign policy, not the President. Even with the pro-Western President, the Slovak PM is not welcome at some meetings, political scientist Radoslav Štefančík reminds EURACTIV Slovensko.

Ukrainian, Belarusian and Georgian journalists explain that they have to persuade their governments not to invite Telegram bloggers to press conferences. Disinformation is spread through anonymous channels, yet the EU does not regulate the platform in any way.