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Kyiv's rebuke of Fico and Tusk's criticism of Berlin
Summary
Two regional disputes, one over Slovakia's remarks on Ukraine's army and one over German border checks, marked the days around 11 September 2024.
What were the political rows in Ukraine's neighbourhood as of 11 September 2024? Two disputes, reported on 9 and 10 September, framed the day.
On 9 September, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expressed "disappointment" over assertions by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. He had said Kyiv should remove "fascist elements" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The ministry noted that the rhetoric resembled Russian allegations of present-day neo-Nazism in Ukraine's Azov Brigade.
On 10 September, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk condemned Germany's new land border restrictions. He pointed to what he saw as Germany's earlier lack of support for other European Union nations affected by irregular migration. The dispute was reported under the heading of the Belarus–European Union border crisis and Germany–Poland relations.
The two episodes were separate, but both showed friction between Ukraine's partners and neighbours: one between Kyiv and Bratislava over how the Ukrainian military was described, the other between Warsaw and Berlin over border policy.
