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AMO analyst Pavel Havlíček sees Slovakia’s exclusion from the talks on the drone shield as partly due to its reluctance to participate in joint projects on the EU and NATO’s eastern flank. He also dismissed speculation that Russia might be planning a limited attack on Poland before Christmas: “At present, it is in a situation where it can only afford to test us, not directly threaten us militarily.”
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At a defense summit in Prague, Mark Rutte stressed that it is up to Ukraine — not Russia, which rejects the idea — to decide whether it may one day want Western peacekeeping forces on its territory. He also warned that Russia and China are currently building their militaries at an “astonishing pace,” and will not stop even after the war in Ukraine ends.
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Negotiations in Alaska and Washington did not bring us any closer to peace or a ceasefire in Ukraine. Even so, they were meaningful. A meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin will likely take place sooner or later, but conducting peace talks while shelling continues is absolutely impossible, says Colonel Zdeněk Petráš, a reservist of the Czech General Staff, in an interview with EURACTIV Slovakia.
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Most European countries have formally applied for funding from the SAFE program, totaling €127 billion. Although the informal deadline for joining was Tuesday, Slovakia’s participation was still uncertain just a few days earlier.
