“The other day, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis, stated that the projectile initiative may continue, but his country will not invest its funds in it. Earlier, he promised to cancel the initiative”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“We (the new government – ed.) needed to make sure that everything is happening correctly and how best to do it. We held consultations with the coalition partners… and in the end we reached a certain consensus and the projectile initiative will continue,” he said, answering a journalist’s question about what led to the decision not to cancel the projectile initiative.
The other day, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis, stated that the program of supplying ammunition to Ukraine within the framework of the Czech initiative may continue, but his country will not invest its funds there.
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Babis, who came to power in December, previously promised to cancel the Czech projectile initiative to supply Ukraine with artillery ammunition.
In December, the Czech government announced the completion of the transfer to Ukraine of 1.8 million munitions promised to be provided in 2025.
In February 2024, the Czech Republic announced that it had found a source of supply of hundreds of thousands of projectiles for Ukraine from abroad – it was about 155 mm and 122 mm caliber projectiles. Such stocks were found in an unnamed country outside the EU. Subsequently, within the scope of the project, Prague found more than a million munitions. About 20 countries joined the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine.
The first ammunition was delivered on the Czech initiative in June 2024. According to the country’s government, during 2024, about 1.5 million ammunition was sent to Ukraine, a third of which was of 155 mm caliber.