Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is facing life-threatening injuries after being shot multiple times by what his government described as a would-be assassin following a government meeting.

Nationalist, Kremlin-friendly Fico was shot four times from close range after a government meeting in the central Slovak mining town of Handlova on May 15, 2024, leaving him seriously wounded.

A 72-year-old poet said he had shot and wounded Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to defend "free culture" as he went on trial Tuesday more than a year after the shock attack."I decided to damage ...