The Czech Republic will transfer 100,000 ammunition to Ukraine within two months

The head of the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic Jan Lipavsky spoke about the delivery of 100,000 ammunition to Ukraine as part of the Czech initiative during July-August and plans for the delivery of 500,000 by the end of the year.

According to him, 18 countries have joined the initiative so far, 15 of them have already fulfilled their promises and made contributions, «European Truth» reports.

This means that there are enough funds to deliver 500,000 ammunition to Ukraine by the end of the year, added Jan Lipavsky.

«During July and August, we will send a total of 100,000 additional ammunition. We are currently looking for money to buy more ammunition to continue the initiative in 2025. This year, we could deliver up to 800,000 munitions if we had the money,» said the Czech minister.

He said that the Czech side is in daily contact with its Ukrainian partners, who value the initiative very much.

Jan Lipavsky also noted that Russia is trying to disrupt the initiative, and in particular, that is why the Czech Republic does not disclose where it receives ammunition from.

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala announced at the end of June that the first shipment of shells within the framework of the Czech initiative arrived in Ukraine some time ago.

Czech initiative

As you know, more than 15 countries cooperate with the Czech initiative. In addition, in March, the Ramstein-style meeting noted that the Czech initiative has inspired two other countries to follow the same approach as the Czech Republic, i.e. to procure ammunition from non-EU and non-NATO countries through bilateral cooperation with donor countries. They have managed to find other possible supplies of ammunition and are now looking for partners to pay for the supplies.

In February, Czech President Petr Pavel announced that the country had found sources of supply of 800,000 shells for Ukraine from abroad. However, the delivery process requires financing.

It recently became known that Western partners have already collected funds for the purchase of 300,000 projectiles for Ukraine at the initiative of the Czech Republic.

After that, the Czech Republic received preliminary approval for the purchase of an additional 200,000 shells in addition to the purchase of 300,000 artillery ammunition.

Earlier, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, said that within the framework of the Czech initiative, they will be able to deliver 1.5 million artillery shells to Ukraine within a year.

In June of this year , the first batch of ammunition was delivered to Ukraine as part of the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for the country.

The next batch of ammunition purchased from third countries will arrive in Ukraine in July 2024.