Slovakia pledges 54 generators, shelter funding and medical equipment to Ukraine

Slovakia will deliver 54 generators to Ukraine as part of a new assistance package, following joint government consultations held in Lviv on Thursday 5 November, where Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico signed a Declaration on Cooperation.

Under the declaration, Bratislava will provide an energy assistance package worth 500,000 euros, with the funds covering the delivery of the generators to Ukraine by the end of the month.

Slovakia is also allocating 300,000 euros as its second contribution to the Civil Protection Shelter Coalition, a further 200,000 euros for medical equipment destined for Ukrainian hospitals, and has announced it will hand over three electric locomotives to Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railway operator. Kyiv expects the locomotives to be in service on European-gauge track in the Zakarpattia region by the end of the year.

Cooperation within the European Union's SAFE instrument received particular attention during the talks. "A Framework Agreement on Financial Cooperation is to be signed, launching energy recovery projects worth more than EUR 100 million under the Ukraine Investment Framework," Koretskyi said on X, formerly Twitter.

The two prime ministers also discussed opening the remaining two negotiating clusters in Ukraine's EU accession process, as well as the launch of an EU Macro-Regional Strategy for the Carpathian Region.

Other items on the agenda included the introduction of joint border checks and an electronic queue system at the shared frontier.

In a further gesture of support, Slovakia announced it is joining the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, an initiative focused on bringing back minors deported or forcibly transferred during the war.

The announcements come despite reservations in Bratislava over larger-scale aid. Earlier, Fico said that Ukraine had asked the EU for 70 billion euros in additional assistance for 2027, but made clear that Slovakia and Hungary would not take part in that initiative.

Thursday's declaration therefore signals a dual track in Slovak policy: continued practical support in energy, humanitarian and transport areas, alongside refusal to join broader EU funding efforts championed by Kyiv.