S-300 Favorit anti-aircraft missile systemsPRAGUE, Apr 8Former Slovak Prime Minister and leader of the leading opposition party «Kurs — Social Democracy» Robert Fico considers the transfer of the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine from Slovakia, which took place over the past two days, «pure madness.» We are seriously concerned that (the visitor Prime Minister Eduard) Heger wants to announce in Kyiv about the Slovak gift to Ukraine — the S-300. That would be pure madness. Not only would we lose a multi-million dollar defense system that is better than the American Patriot. But we will be more and more in the name of American interests to get involved in the war in Ukraine, to which we have nothing to do,» Fico wrote on his Twitter account. Another opposition party, Golos, which is headed by former Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, is of the same opinion. «We we consider this (the transfer of the S-300 system to Ukraine) a threat to the defense capability of Slovakia and a fraud of the current Slovak government in relation to its own citizens! oslav) Nagy stressed that the S-300 will be withdrawn from the Slovak Armed Forces only if it is provided with an adequate replacement. This promise has yet to be fulfilled, and Minister Nagy himself recently spoke of a time horizon (for the implementation of this plan) of several months to several years. Obviously, the Patriot systems currently being deployed cannot completely replace the S-300 system. We call on Minister Nagy to explain this senseless step leading to a decrease in the level of combat readiness of the Slovak armed forces,» the party said in a statement published on its website. On Friday, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced that in recent days the S-300 air defense system was delivered. In turn, the head of the Slovak Ministry of Defense, Yaroslav Nagy, said on Friday that the fourth complex of the Patriot system will arrive in the republic from the United States next week, and thus «the security and defense of Slovakia will be fully provided.»< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/79161cd307a627c426bb0320bf7920ec.jpg" />Germany approved defense supplies to Ukraine for 186 million euros
