Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Slovakia Robert Kalinak, centre, arrives for a media briefing together with hospital director Miriam Lapunikova, right, outside the F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured on May 15, is treated, in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, Friday, May 17, 2024. Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday, but his deputy prime minister said he believed Fico would survive. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)