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Peter Juščák.

No one stood up for the Ukrainian mother and her son

Beňo's dragon and Slovak monsters.

Peter Juščák
Prime Minister Robert Fico during a government meeting on July 10, 2024 in Bratislava.
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Fico predicts future attacks in video address: “I have no doubt they will occur.”

Prime Minister Robert Fico criticises European socialists and warns against a third world war in his latest video.

“I’m a small woman, but I tell myself I can handle anything,” Yaroslava Lopushanska says, noting that she misses her husband a lot. “And he misses me too.”

A university-educated Ukrainian chemist working in a grocery shop: “It’s still a necessary job.”

Yaroslava Lopushanska thinks about her home in Uzhhorod all the time, but knows she is better off in Slovakia.

Katarína Kozinková
Kostya works as a carpenter. Marharyta believes she will continue her work as a psychologist someday.

Carpenter from Kharkiv: War cannot be grasped through TV

Kostiantyn Chepizhenko and his life partner had never heard of Košice before. However, they are satisfied in Slovakia.

Katarína Kozinková
Daria Otreshko is a Ukrainian student living in Banská Bystrica, central Slovakia.

Being 21 in Slovakia means university. Being 21 in Ukraine means survival, says student

Daria Otreshko, a Ukrainian student based in Banská Bystrica, never turns off air-raid warnings intended for her hometown of Kremenchuk.

Katarína Kozinková
Taras Tsohla in Paris during the Free Iran World Summit 2023.

Ukrainian student sees good in Slovaks despite widespread belief in Russian propaganda

Taras Tsohla does not regret coming to Slovakia to study, but he would like to see Slovak people be more open.

Katarína Kozinková
Alyona Yaseneva and her family live in Rimavská Sobota, southern Slovakia.

War on the mind and canvas: A Ukrainian family of painters finds a safe haven in Slovakia

Russia's war in Ukraine continues to influence Alyona Yaseneva's and her children's art, although less so today.

Katarína Kozinková
SaS MP Vladimíra Marcinková.

The eight Slovak lawmakers who voted against the resolution on Ukrainian children

Initiated by four opposition MPs, parliament failed to adopt the document.

Ukrainian secession

Is Soviet art only Russian? Ukrainian artists set the record straight on European art history

The travelling Ukrainian exhibition 'In the Eye of the Storm' makes a stop in Bratislava.

155 mm calibre artillery ammunition.

Arms factory owned by US firm is heading eastwards

Behind the project is mother of a Ukrainian ex-MP.

Yelyzaveta ‘Liza’ Derevynska.

On Telegram, she helps Ukrainians. In Bratislava, she stands with protesting Slovaks

Yelyzaveta Derevynska, or simply Liza, says that she would have gone back to Kyiv if she were not of help to refugees.

Katarína Kozinková
Taisiya Kosterina.

Ukrainian community worker has helped others. Now she needs help

Taisiya Kosterina somewhat got used to uncertainty in Slovakia, saying it is "not easy" to start all over again.

Katarína Kozinková
Illustrative image.

Drone-making plant near Prešov plans to grow from 26 employees to 200

Ukrainian-owned company has clients on several continents.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (left) speaks with Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár (centre) during an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers at the Czernin Palace in Prague on May 31, 2024.

After quietly toasting Russia, Foreign Minister Blanár heads to Ukraine peace summit

The gathering in Switzerland will not be attended by Russia or China.

The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine, pictured in March 2020 following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

Asylum law changes herald reduced assistance for Ukrainian refugees

Accommodation will be provided for only 120 days from the first granting of temporary refuge.

Aleksandr Kachura (l) and Jaroslav Halajčík (r).
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UPDATED: Ukraine captures Slovak dressed in Russian uniform

The man, who killed his cousin in the past, saw the war as a means of earning money and settling in Russia's Siberia.

Ukrainian refugee children attend the Ukrainian school in evacuation.

Ukrainian school in Bratislava calls for donations to survive

UNICEF will no longer support the Ukrainian school.

PM Robert Fico with Russian Ambassador Igor Bratchikov, as portrayed in November 2023.

Slovakia, Ukraine and Russia: When political expediency meets personal animus (analysis)

Fico may be harbouring a grudge against Ukraine, but it meshes neatly with his political goals and long-standing Russophilia.

Smer MP Tibor Gašpar talks to the press, while a group of opposition MPs protest against the Russian ambassador's planned visit to the Slovak parliament on May 7, 2024.

Russian ambassador's planned visit to Slovak parliament ends in fiasco

Several opposition MPs protested against Igor Bratchikov's visit.

Artem Marchevsky

Report: Sanctioned pro-Kremlin agitator is in EU under Slovak protection

Ukrainian Artem Marchevsky is alleged to have bribed European politicians.