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Fico has emerged this year, alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as an advocate for Putin and for Russia within the European Union, vowing to block Ukraine from joining NATO and refusing to send “another bullet” of state military aid to Kyiv.
European leaders were united on Sunday in vigorously condemning the political violence that erupted overnight across the Atlantic when a deadly shooting left former U.S. President Donald Trump injured at a campaign rally.
In an interview with American media personality Tucker Carlson earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted he would be looking to trade Gershkovich for Vadim Krasikov, a convicted assassin serving a life sentence in Germany.