According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the Czech Republic will not join the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine. A new plan for how the United States could be involved in the supply of Kiev weapons was presented on Monday by US President Donald Trump. Fiala on Tuesday for the Publico.cz server said that The Czech Republic focuses on other aid tripsinforms the TASR newsletter in Prague.
Trump pointed out that the weapons for Ukraine would pay European states. The store should look like the Allies buy weapons from the US and will be able to send their supplies to Ukraine. This would particularly apply to Patriot air defense systems, missiles and other equipment. According to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte For example, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Canada want to participate in arming Ukraine.
According to Fiala, the Czech Republic will not engage. “The Czech Republic will focus on other projects and roads to help Ukraine, For example, through ammunition initiative. Therefore, at the moment we are not considering that we would join this project, ”said the Czech Prime Minister Publico.
Several European countries said it was willing to buy US weapons for Ukraine. However, they stressed that it is still necessary to fine -tune the conditions of the agreement. European ministers also said they would have to explore the ways to pay new weapons.
