Media reports say Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital.
    • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
      29·
      8 months ago

      Actually Fico ran on the pledge to stop Slovakian military aid to Ukraine.

      “Populist” means far right Russian stooge these days.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66972984

      “If (Fico’s party) Smer enters government, we will not send a single round of ammunition to Ukraine,” (Fico) recently told supporters. (Before the election, which Smer won)

      • MelastSB@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        8 months ago

        So anyone can be behind that assassination attempt, even pro-Russians as a false flag. Poor fucker shouldn’t have taken the money

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      Zero…his electoral platform was basically “stop helping Ukraine”.

      There’s no upside for an independent Russian resident of Slovakia to be a provocateur and potentially kill their ally, and nothing would reinvigorate weakening Western support for Ukraine than the Russian state attempting to assassinate a European head of state.

    • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      That is a possibility as a Russian would not care much for Slovakia and try to break unity in the west.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      8 months ago

      My first thought too. Putin is cleaning house internally. And this can just be a good move with fico not being loyal enough so you martyr him and get an even more usefull idiot in his place.