BRATISLAVA - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico plans to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Russian capital Moscow on May 9, but he does not plan to attend the Victory Day parade on Red Square, he said on Thursday.
„I am not going to Moscow to attend a military parade. I am going to Moscow to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin wall. And you know why? Because tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers died during the liberation of Slovakia,“ Fico said during a meeting with Slovak university students, according to a video posted on his official Facebook account.
Fico pointed out that there are memorials to the mass graves of Red Army soldiers in Slovakia. He pointed out that liberating soldiers under the age of 18 are also buried there.
The Slovak prime minister added that after his visit to Moscow, he would head to Normandy to attend celebrations marking the 82nd anniversary of the opening of the Second Front and then visit the United States to thank the Americans for their active participation in the anti-Hitler coalition and for defeating militaristic Japan.
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