{"id":1450606,"date":"2026-10-08T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/slovakia-and-russia-have-resumed-military-contacts-for-the-first-time-in-four-years\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:03:00","slug":"slovakia-and-russia-have-resumed-military-contacts-for-the-first-time-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/slovakia-and-russia-have-resumed-military-contacts-for-the-first-time-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia and Russia have resumed military contacts for the first time in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slovakia and Russia have resumed the exchange of military attaches for the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by<\/a> the Slovak publication Aktuality.<\/p>\n

According to the publication, the decision to restore military-diplomatic contacts was part of the agreements that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico reached with Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow in May.<\/p>\n

Slovakia has already sent two representatives to the Russian capital. Brigadier General S\u0142awomir Staviarski will take up the position of military attach\u00e9, and Colonel Ivo Gahir will be his deputy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bratislava is expecting the arrival of a Russian military attach\u00e9. According to Aktuality, he could be 46-year-old Russian Navy officer Maxim Verezhan, who previously worked at the Russian diplomatic mission in Rome.<\/p>\n

The last time a Russian military attach\u00e9 worked in Slovakia was about four years ago. After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Eduard Geger’s government expelled him from the country along with other Russian diplomats. At the same time, the Slovak military representative in Moscow also ceased work.<\/p>\n

Aktuality reminds that the previous Russian attach\u00e9 Sergei Solomasov was involved in the bribery case of the author of the pro-Russian publication Hlavn\u00e9 spr\u00e1vy. The case involved the distribution of materials beneficial to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Recall, Fico previously stated that Slovakia would not fight for its allies if NATO’s Article 5 were invoked<\/a> . The Prime Minister emphasized that the country remains a member of the Alliance.<\/p>\n

In addition, Slovakia has stopped military support for Ukraine and refused to participate in security guarantees from the EU<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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Slovakia and Russia have resumed the exchange of military attaches for the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This is reported by the Slovak publication Aktuality. According to the publication, the decision to restore military-diplomatic contacts was part of the agreements that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico reached with Vladimir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1450585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76885,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1450606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}