EU -funded military aid and support for Ukraine will only prolong the war with Russia, Slovakia's President, Peter Pellegrini, has warned. Remarking on the EU country's stance on the use of frozen Russian assets, Mr Pellegrini urged Europe to "speed up and support US efforts so that they can sit down at the negotiating table with Vladimir Putin as soon as possible and put an end to this war".

"Because I believe that if we send Ukraine tens or hundreds of billions more just to buy weapons and military equipment, we are only prolonging the conflict, which has devastating consequences for Ukraine." The Slovak leader added that such large sums of money should instead be spent on Ukraine's post-war reconstruction, in a bid to help the country recover, restore its electricity supp

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