In a blistering broadside from Bratislava, Robert Fico tore into Brussels and aimed a fiery swipe at Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of overreach amid the Druzhba pipeline row. He said Slovakia would not be treated as Ukraine’s servant, warning that the EU’s twentieth sanctions package was reckless and self-damaging. Fico argued the measures would hammer member states such as Greece, Malta and Cyprus while doing little to weaken Moscow, escalating tensions across the bloc and deepening divisions over support for Kyiv.