Fico stated that only Putin has a real plan for a settlement in Ukraine.

Currently, only Russian President Vladimir Putin has a real plan to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. This was announced on March 8 by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

He shared that he had been negotiating a resolution to the conflict with the Russian leader, Chinese President Xi Jinping and officials from Brazil.

"I think the only one who has a real plan to resolve this conflict is Russian President Putin," Fico said on the Saturday Dialogues program, a fragment of the video posted on his Facebook page (part of Meta, an organization recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).

Why Europe doesn't want an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Parsing

Earlier in the day, Milliyet newspaper reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was going to discuss Ankara's initiatives for a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis with his cabinet on March 10.

On the eve of March 8, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto said that the Polish government and the European Union (EU) are trying to prevent peace talks on Ukraine. At the same time, most of the countries of the association, according to the Hungarian Foreign Minister, want to achieve a settlement of the conflict.