Slovak Prime Minister Edouard Heger announced on Friday April 8 that his country had supplied the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine in support of this country which is fighting against the Russian invasion.
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“I can confirm that the Slovak Republic donated the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine“said Edouard Heger on Facebook. According to Edouard Heger, who was on board a train heading for kyiv on Friday, this “Donis a response from his country to a request for assistance made by Ukraine in the exercise ofself-defenseunder Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. The mobile multi-channel surface-to-air missile system S-300, of Russian design, was among the specific Ukrainian requests for arms deliveries from Western countries.
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The Slovak Prime Minister stressed that the delivery of the system “does not mean that the Slovak Republic has become a party to the armed conflict in Ukraine“. According to him, this systemwill help save as many innocent Ukrainians as possiblein the face of the aggression of the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin. Edouard Heger, whose country is a member of the EU and NATO, also assured that the Slovak Republic could count in the coming days on “an additional missile defense systemprovided by its allies, without providing further details.
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