Czech Republic met its goal of supplying 1.8 million large-caliber shells to Ukraine - Fiala
Kyiv • UNN
Petr Fiala, the outgoing head of the Czech government, announced that the goal of supplying 1.8 million large-caliber shells to Ukraine has been met. The new Czech government may discontinue this initiative, despite the president's support.
The goal of supplying 1.8 million large-caliber shells within the framework of the "Czech initiative" for Ukraine has been met, said Petr Fiala, the outgoing head of the Czech government, on X, writes UNN.
I promised to deliver 1,800,000 units of large-caliber ammunition to the defenders of Ukraine this year. I am pleased to confirm that today we have achieved this goal
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The Czech initiative involves purchasing large-caliber artillery ammunition for Ukraine worldwide using funds from donor countries. In 2024, 1.5 million shells were supplied to Ukraine in this way, and 1.8 million were to be supplied this year, Ales Vitek, director of the Czech Agency for Intergovernmental Defense Cooperation, reported in early October.
Fiala's outgoing government called on the new Czech government led by Andrej Babiš not to stop this initiative.
Babiš, who officially became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on December 9, promised to reduce military aid to Ukraine from the state budget and stated that the new government could stop the Czech ammunition initiative. Babiš, Reuters writes, said the scheme was opaque and overpriced, but did not take a clear position on the future of the project, which has strong presidential support.