Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 5.

After returning from Beijing on Thursday evening, I will move to eastern Slovakia to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, Fico said in a video message published on his Facebook page (owned by Meta, an organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).

On August 31, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov reported that Vladimir Putin and Fico also planned a meeting on the sidelines of the SCO summit.

On August 16, Fico called for security guarantees to be given to all participants in the Ukrainian conflict. He said that, in his opinion, the meeting of the Russian and US presidents in Alaska launched the process of standardizing relations between Russia and the United States. Fico emphasized that he welcomed this process.