Nadín likened Putin to Hitler – SME.sk

The American daily devoted itself to the transfer of the Slovak S-300 to Ukraine. BRATISLAVA. In an interview with The New York Times, Defense Minister Jaroslav Naď said that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was comparable to Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it would be unthinkable for Slovakia to send a large number of basic weapons for free, let alone an air defense system, across the eastern border, said the head of the defense department. Come on. “We are a front-line state. We have a war on our borders and more than 330,000 Ukrainians have come to our country. The paradigm is completely different now,” he said. According to him, Putin “equals Hitler” and must be stopped in Ukraine. Related article Related article Slovakia sent the S-300 system to Ukraine. No country has helped so far Read “Ukraine is literally fighting for our future,” the minister quotes the newspaper in an extensive article on the Slovak supply of the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. Its handover was confirmed last week by Prime Minister Eduard Heger. At the same time, he rejected Russia’s earlier claims that it had destroyed an S-300 system delivered from a European country during a strike on a hangar near the city of Dnipro. The minister described the information as a “fake report”, which he said was aimed first at preserving Moscow’s face and calming the nerves of Russian pilots sent to bomb Ukraine. His Ukrainian counterpart allegedly assured him on Monday that the Slovak anti-aircraft system was working and not in the Dnieper. While Russian forces are regrouping on the expected offensive in eastern Ukraine, NATO nations, including the United States, are trying to maintain the supply of weapons to the invaded country and increase its defenses, writes the NYT, among others. Ukraine has its own S-300 and other similar systems, but some of them have already been destroyed, leaving Russia much freedom to strike Ukraine’s targets from the air, the daily notes. and better weapons than before, including T-72M tanks from the Czech Republic. War in Ukraine