Czech initiative on shells for Ukraine: Poland has not transferred the promised contribution - media
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The Czech Republic plans to deliver 100,000 artillery shells to Ukraine in September. Poland is the only country that has publicly pledged but not transferred funds to the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
By August of this year, more than a dozen countries had joined the Czech initiative to purchase shells for the Ukrainian Armed Forces , allocating different amounts. Germany contributed the most and was the earliest to do so. The only country that has so far only publicly pledged money and not transferred it is Poland. This was written by Wyborczaand reported by UNN.
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The Czech Republic plans to deliver about 100,000 artillery shells to Ukraine in September as part of its ammunition initiative. This will bring Czech politicians much closer to fulfilling their promise to supply Ukraine with at least half a million artillery shells of various calibers, mostly 155 mm, purchased by Western allies from sources outside the European Union by the end of the year.
The initiative was conceived and planned at a time when it was uncertain whether and to what extent European and American manufacturers would be able to increase ammunition production, and Ukraine had no guaranteed supplies from the United States.
Experts from the Czech Ministry of Defense, together with representatives of about five trusted Czech companies, gathered information on where in the world there might be ammunition stockpiles or free production facilities. They created a well-known but “top-secret” spreadsheet from which potential donors could choose which supplies they wanted to pay for.
By August of this year, about eighteen countries had joined the campaign (some publicly, some not), making contributions of varying amounts.
The only ones who have so far only publicly promised money, but have not sent it and are not in the process of concluding a deal, are the Poles, as confirmed by the country's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in an interview with Visegrad Insight this summer.
