“Anti-Ukrainian statements in the New Year’s speech of the speaker of the lower house of the Czech parliament, Tomio Okamura, led to a significant increase in Czech donations for weapons for the Ukrainian military.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Tomio Okamura, photo from open sources Source: “European truth”, the leader of the Czech initiative Dárek pro Putina (A gift for Putin) Martin Ondracek in a comment to “Ukrifnorm”
Details: The Dárek pro Putina initiative regularly organizes meetings for the purchase of equipment and ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Ondracek, after Okamura’s New Year’s Eve speech, donations began to increase.
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“Okamura published his speech on the morning of January 1, and that day we received 780,000 kroner (almost 26,500 euros), on February 2 – 954,000 kroner (32,350,000 euros) – these are extremely high amounts – considering that there were still Christmas holidays, and many people made gifts for us, which they sent back in December,” the leader of the initiative said.
He compared it with the level of donations in the first two days of last year: 162,000 kroner and 191,000 kroner, respectively. Martin Ondracek noted that such a situation has not been observed for the first time: donations increase when insults or threats are directed at Ukraine.
We will remind you that in his New Year’s speech, the head of the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party and the speaker of the lower house of the Czech parliament, Tomio Okamura, spoke out against aid to Ukraine and declared about “Zelensky’s junta”.
After that, the Ambassador of Ukraine in Prague, Vasyl Zvarych, noted that Okamura’s latest statements to Ukraine, Ukrainians and the Ukrainian leadership reflect Russian propaganda and are unacceptable.
Matsinka called inappropriate such assessments of the Czech top official by the ambassador of a foreign state. Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis said that Zvarych violated diplomatic etiquette.
And Sybiga rejected the criticism of his Czech colleague and became defensive Welding
On January 6, Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiga said that in a conversation with his Czech colleague Petr Matsinka, he agreed “turn the page” after the scandal with the speaker.