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Slovakia could supply its S-300 anti-missile system to Ukraine
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The American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system is on its way to Slovakia, a country bordering Ukraine.
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While a NATO summit is taking place this Thursday in Brussels and the organization will provide "additional support to Ukraine against nuclear and chemical threats", the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system is also in on its way to Slovakia, a country bordering Ukraine.
Slovakia announced at the same time that it could supply Ukraine with its S-300 anti-missile system.
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With our special correspondent in Košice
,
Alexis Bédu
In
Košice
, in the border region of Ukraine, there is no debate for the inhabitants, you have to help the attacked neighbor and do everything possible to defend yourself against the Russians.
“
I think you have to be ready, he doesn't scare you,
explains this Slovak.
You can be a pacifist if everyone is, but obviously Russia isn't a pacifist, so if you stay a pacifist, you disappear.
»
“
An evil that must be stopped at all costs
”
In Košice, we remember the August 1968 invasion with Russian tanks rolling into Prague in what was still Czechoslovakia.
“
I saw images of Mariupol on television and I said to myself that it could be with us,
says Igor Petrovtchik, mayor of the largest district of Košice
.
There is a real danger and it is an evil that must be stopped at all costs.
I think that if in 2014 our reaction to Putin's aggression had been stronger, we might not be where we are today.
The risk of World War III will exist as long as Putin is in power.
You have to protect yourself
.
»
Once the American system is installed, the two Slovak S-300 anti-missile pieces should be sent to
Ukraine
.
The government is preparing the population, explaining that at the moment these old systems are useless in
Slovakia
.
Russians and Ukrainians being the only ones who can do their maintenance.
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To read: NATO will deploy four new battalions in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia
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