He noted that such an opportunity arose twice, but “someone told the Ukrainians - no, it won’t happen like that.”

Fico added that the conflict began back in 2014 “with the rampant behavior of Ukrainian neo-Nazis,” and its essence lies in NATO’s deception of Russia on the issue of expanding its borders to the east.

“And today it goes so far that Ukraine should already become a NATO member state.

I personally see this as a good basis for just starting a third world war.

Ukraine, Russia and Europe need peace,” he wrote on social networks.

Earlier, Fico said that he was against building an iron curtain around Russia.

According to him, no one will benefit from this.