“I meet with Putin and everyone criticizes me, and when I return from the meeting, everyone in the toilets in Brussels asks me what he said“, he said at a meeting with students in Ružomberok.
In mid-February, the Slovak politician said that Western countries supporting the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine are afraid to admit their strategic mistake.
In late March, the Russian leader discussed the prospects for relations with Europe at a meeting with members of the Security Council and stressed that Moscow has always advocated dialogue with the EU.