Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused certain members of the European Union of attempting to sabotage peace efforts by disrupting the now-canceled meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest.
“The foreign minister of a European Union member state says that Russian President V. Putin could be detained during a flight over this country, and the European Commission’s media environment is warning Hungary that it should implement an international arrest warrant,” Fico said in a statement released by the Slovak Government Office.
“I have always maintained that the EU has turned into a war cabinet, that a significant part of EU member states support the war in Ukraine in the naive belief that this way Russia can be weakened and even defeated,” he added, calling the attempts to derail peace talks a “sad sight.”
Meanwhile, Poland has warned that Putin could face detention mid-flight, further heightening tensions within the bloc regarding the handling of the Ukraine conflict.
