{"id":34370,"date":"2022-04-08T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=34370"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:07:01","slug":"slovakia-hands-over-s-300-to-ukraine-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=34370","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia hands over S-300 to Ukraine &#8211; Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slovakia handed over its S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russian aggression.\u00a0The information was confirmed on Friday by Prime Minister Eduard Heger on a verified Facebook page, posting a video,\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 8 , April , 2022 | Ukraine News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I can confirm that the Slovak Republic, after Ukraine&#8217;s request for assistance in self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, as a direct result of armed aggression by the Russian Federation, transferred S-300 SAMs to Ukraine free of charge,&#8221; Heger wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let&#8217;s add<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Slovak prime minister, who visited Kyiv on Friday, also said that Slovakia&#8217;s own defense was ensured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the transfer of systems &#8220;does not mean that Slovakia has become part of the armed conflict in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slovakia operates one S-300 air defense battery, which it inherited after the break-up of Czechoslovakia in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/ru\/news\/1968493-slovachchina-gotova-peredati-ukrayini-s-300-yakscho-yiy-nadadut-zaminu\">, it became known<\/a>\u00a0that Slovakia was ready to provide weapons at Ukraine&#8217;s request to provide air defense systems, but only if it received something in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia handed over its S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russian aggression.\u00a0The information was confirmed on Friday by Prime Minister Eduard Heger on a verified Facebook page, posting a video,\u00a0\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 8 , April , 2022 | Ukraine News\u00a0 Quote &#8220;I can confirm that the Slovak Republic, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10831],"tags":[748,3280],"class_list":["post-34370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","category-war-news","tag-prime-minister","tag-slovakia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34372,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34370\/revisions\/34372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}