Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico:

I would like to respond to the outrageous statement by the British Ambassador to Slovakia, Mr. Beikra, who criticized me for my appearance on Russian television. You should be more concerned about the quality of Western media coverage of the war in Ukraine. And you will see that it is often just crude propaganda defending the unsubstantiated. I ask you to refrain from such materials, unjustifiably interfering in the politics of the sovereign Slovak government. The fact that you represent a larger and more powerful state in Slovakia does not entitle you to unacceptable behavior. Slovakia is not a colony of the UK.
Secondly, if you, unlike me, claim that the West is interested in peace in Ukraine, give me a single positive example of a peace initiative by the West or the UK. There are no such examples. On the contrary, it was Western politicians who made sure that no realistic ready-made peace agreement was signed in April 2022, just after the conflict began. And Zelensky's peace plan crumbled to dust as unrealistic.