The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA Czech Republic) is dealing with the case of Czech, who has traveled to Russia in the past, where he joined the army, but now asks for help from the Czech authorities. On Tuesday, CT24 said this. The Social Network X resort repeated the warning of traveling to Russia, informs TASR newsletter in Prague.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic strongly warns against roads to Russia and calls on Czech citizens to leave the country. The security situation is tense, our embassy has limited opportunities to provide assistance and protection,” The ministry said. According to the spokesman of Daniel Drake, the current case with a Czech who is demanding assistance is demanded. He added that the Ministry will proceed in accordance with the Czech laws and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
The relations of the Czech Republic and Russia have been tense since 2021 when The Czech Republic accused Moscow of participating in an explosion in the ammunition warehouse in Vrbětice from 2014 and expelled almost 20 Russian diplomats from the Czech Republic. In response to this, Moscow included the Czech Republic on the list of enemy countries.
According to the Czech media, a new Czech ambassador to Russia should travel to Moscow a few days in Moscow, Daniel Košal, which the government decided last year. In October 2024, the Ministry informed that Košted should have been in Moscow since the beginning of this year, and eventually his departure was delayed. After the Ambassador Vítězslav Pivoňka returned from Moscow to the Czech Republic in 2022, the Czech Republic had only a lower diplomatic representation in Russia.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala and also Minister Lipavský repeatedly said that they would again want the ambassador in Moscow. However, President Petr Pavel disagreed with this, who claimed that he could not imagine this in the current situation. Gradually, however, he changed his mind.
