Kyiv’s NATO membership would ‘guarantee WW3,’ Slovak PM says – POLITICO

Fico added he had instructed Slovakia’s representatives at the summit to reiterate that Ukraine can only join NATO once it meets all the criteria for membership, and after all of the alliance’s member countries sign off.

Slovakia has been a member of NATO since 2004. Fico, who is in his fourth term as the country’s prime minister since 2006, has pledged to halt military aid to Ukraine and claimed there is “no war” in the capital, Kyiv.

He also said he “would have liked very much to have joined” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán on his trip to Moscow last week to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin.