Czechia to send $30 million worth of military aid to Ukraine

Czechia sends a planned batch of military aid to Ukraine, which includes weaponry "not needed" for the country's defense.

The package is worth 600-700 million crowns (28 thousand – 32.6 thousand dollars), Jana Černochová, Czechia's defense minister, says.

The state will transfer property from the army warehouses that is not needed by the Czech army.

"The aid that we are planning together with the Chief of the General Staff reaches about 600-700 million kroner. This is not financial aid. These are military resources that are still in our warehouses, which the army does not need and can actually send to Ukraine without putting under threat of its own defense capability," the minister said.

Černochová presented the president a list of aid the state had already sent to Ukraine earlier. She mentioned the Czech-Ukrainian production cluster and the help provided by private companies.

The state's leader Petr Pavel stated in one of the recent interviews that Czechia has given Ukraine everything it could but has the production capacity for further assistance.

The Czech Republic began to transfer weapons to Ukraine a few days before the start of the full-scale war. Subsequently, it became one of the largest suppliers of military equipment to Ukraine. Over the course of the year, Prague transferred weapons worth about 422 million euros to Ukraine, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, howitzers, helicopters, and anti-aircraft systems.