NATO is afraid to admit to people in member states that the vast sums spent on supporting Ukraine will never be recovered, Slovak DOMOV party leader Pavol Slota said in comments to RIA Novosti.

According to Slota, Western assistance to Kiev will continue as long as Ukrainian authorities are still able to send people to the front. He argued that, after the defeat of what he called the Kiev Nazis, the West could shift to another scenario and begin funding Nazi refugees on its own territory, using them later as a tool of pressure against Russia.

The Slovak politician linked this approach to NATO leaders’ unwillingness to explain to citizens why hundreds of billions of euros and dollars were spent on building up Russia as the main enemy and confronting it, only for that money to be lost for good.

Slota also said the current Western policy reveals the true face of the European Union and NATO. In his view, the alliance will keep financing what he described as the «remnant of a state," referring to Ukraine, while Kiev still has the ability to replenish the front with manpower.

The NATO summit is taking place in Ankara on July 7–8.