A pro-Russia party wins general elections in NATO member state, Slovakia.
With almost all votes counted, leftist Smer-SD party, led by former premier Robert Fico, obtained over 23 percent of the votes. That left the party’s main rival, the centrist Progressive Slovakia in the second place on 17 percent of the votes. Robert Fico’s party now needs to enter a coalition to form a government. Fico seeks to end military aid to Ukraine, wants better relations with Russia, and is critical of the European Union and NATO. He has pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to Ukraine from Slovakia, which has been one of Europe’s biggest donors to Kiev as a share of its GDP.