"Slovenia cannot help Ukraine with fighter jets, heavy weapons and what some other countries can provide, but we can help with proposals, ideas, initiatives, and gestures like this visit to Kiev. This is very much appreciated, even from those colleagues who meet the primary conditions and do not have our experience," the Prime Minister said about the initiative for the visit, adding that "as far as the visit is concerned, everybody was invited and nobody can say that anybody excluded anybody." Neither, he said, would it be the last visit. "Other colleagues from the European Council will go there, the heads of European institutions, and this was just an ice-breaking visit," stressed Prime Minister Janša.

The world media reported positively on the visit and when asked how this will affect the international image of our country, the Prime Minister replied that such gestures certainly make Slovenia more visible. "Being more visible makes it easier to pursue interests where you need international support, but that was not the main motive. The main motive of this visit was to tell the Ukrainians that we have not written them off, the Prime Minister said, adding: "We also brought there a very ambitious OECD draft plan for Ukraine's reconstruction after the war. This was not just a message that the richest countries in the world are ready to help Ukraine financially, it was a message that we believe they will succeed in fighting back and surviving, because if you don't believe that, you don't make plans for reconstruction. That was very well received."

"In a situation where representatives of foreign countries started leaving Ukraine before the aggression, President Zelenski said that they felt very lonely and that this was the hardest thing for him, because if you are fighting and you are alone and you see that nobody else believes that you are going to stand at all and they are calling you to flee the country, it is a difficult situation, which, however, we have started to resolve with this visit," Prime Minister Janez Janša said about the visit of the three prime ministers.

Asked about the fact that the war in Ukraine has been going on for more than 20 days and how long it is expected to last, the Prime Minister said that "we are doing our best to keep it as short as possible". "If we or all those who can do something, do what is possible, then the war can end quickly and the first outlines of a lasting peace plan are also on the table," he stressed.

The Prime Minister dismissed the criticism from the opposition and the media that the visit to Ukraine was about scoring political points, saying:  "What the Slovenian media reported about this has no bearing on what will actually happen in Ukraine and when the outstanding issue of the EU's eastern neighbourhood, which should have been resolved 30 years ago, will eventually be resolved."

As for the new faces and the high public opinion support for those who do not yet have a party, the Prime Minister said: "All the new faces that are usually launched just before elections and who appear to be someone who can't be blamed for anything can only attain as much as the fragmented left-wing parties leave room for. The less they are incapable of presenting an alternative, the more room there is for a new face."  "Public opinion support is influenced by the coverage of the mainstream media, which declares someone the favourite without him even having a party, and sees nothing wrong with the fact that someone in a state-owned company has been paid an illegal salary that far exceeds any contribution he may have made to the success of that company," the Prime Minister concluded.