"If I'm alive...": Putin joked, answering a question from Robert Fico

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 2, asked the Russian leader how he was doing.

Vladimir Vladimirovich made an interesting joke in response.

"If I'm alive, it's already good," Putin said.

At a meeting with the Russian president, a politician from Slovakia also recalled the details of his visit to Moscow on May 9, 2025.

"Believe me, I do not regret that I came. And I simply do not accept the criticism that individual EU member states have come with. Because everything is laid out in my head," explained Fico.

The EU politician also added that "the peoples of the former USSR and China paid the most for the victory."