Dennik N reported the information.Fico said that first he will hold bilateral talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to China. According to him, he informed EU representatives about his trip in advance.After that, the Slovak prime minister also plans to meet with the President of Ukraine."After returning from Beijing on Thursday evening I will go to eastern Slovakia in order to hold a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday," Fico said.On August 10, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would have negative consequences for Ukraine. He used an African proverb: "It doesn't matter whether the elephants fight or mate, the grass always suffers." He drew an analogy to the upcoming talks, asserting that "however the elephants' negotiations end on August 15, the grass will suffer — in this case Ukraine."Shortly thereafter he said that the war in Ukraine has "distorted freedom of speech" in the EU, and that his opinion on this "almost cost him his life."