“Has the Czech Republic sided with Russia?” asks the Latvian server directly in the title of the article, in which he subsequently quoted the statement of the spokesman of the Czech Foreign Ministry, Adam Čörgő, for Fairpress.
“The Slovak side submitted a standard request for an overflight permit, and it was issued without delay,” Čörgő said on Friday.
News asked the MFA about the overflight permit because the Russian daily Moskovskij Komsolomec (MK) claimed that Prague had rejected this permit. “Some European countries have already banned Fico’s plane from using their airspace for a flight to Russia – specifically the Czech Republic and Poland,” claimed MK.
Fic, on the other hand, was banned from flying over Poland or the entire Baltic region. “We must continue to politically and economically isolate the aggressor and exert firm pressure on him until he fully comes to terms with the consequences of his actions,” Estonian Foreign Affairs Minister Margus Tsahkna wrote on the X network.
His Polish counterpart, Radosław Sikorski, was not so specific, he only declared that this problem “no longer exists”. “According to my current information, the problem has ceased to exist,” he said this week.
Ukraine subsequently thanked the Baltics. Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha stated that these countries “have taken a firm position against the use of airspace to deepen relations with Russia”. “We call on other countries to follow the example of our Baltic friends and also refuse to use their airspace,” added Sybiha.
Fico has been planning a trip to Moscow for a long time. He will take part in the Victory Day celebrations in the Great Patriotic War, which will take place on May 9, i.e. the day after the Czech Republic celebrates the anniversary of the end of World War II.
The Russians celebrate something a little different, because at the beginning of the world conflict in 1939, they participated together with Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland, and the then Soviet Union had a non-aggression pact with Germany.
The Great Patriotic War did not begin until 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.
In addition to participating in the celebrations, the Slovak Prime Minister will also meet with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
