“Europe cannot be left out of the war in Ukraine.” This is the position of Petr Pavel, president of the Czech Republic, who, during a visit on January 16, showed his support for the cause and lamented what kyiv will have to do to end the offensive.
“I think there are a series of painful concessions that Ukraine will have to make and is willing to make, as long as it leads to peace,” the president said in a press conference after his meeting with Volodímir Zelenski.
The Czech leader, in statements reported by the newspaper assured that the United States remains indispensable to resolve the conflict. “It is painful for Europe that But this does not mean that Europe and European countries should be left out of these efforts,” he said.
Likewise, Pavel emphasized that Europe must ensure that “all the work done” in the peace process “does not go to waste.” “I think Ukraine has done a lot to make the proposed solution acceptable,” he added.
The visit of the Czech minister
It is the third time that the Czech president has set foot on Ukrainian soil since the start of the war. This last visit began on January 15 in Lviv, where he met with the head of the Lviv oblast, Maksym Kozytskyyand the Minister of Veterans Affairs, Natalia Kalmykova.
In addition, the president took the opportunity to visit the soldiers wounded in combat who are in the hospital in that same city. There, as the publication states, Czech and Ukrainian doctors carry out joint operations under the Medevac mission: a system of transporting wounded patients from remote locations on the front.
In statements in the Ukrainian city, the president warned that ammunition shipments to kyiv would be cancelled. “Ukraine clearly expressed their gratitude for it to continue. For them it is an absolutely key part of how to provide the front units with much-needed ammunition.” Likewise, he has once again assured his “firm support without changes.”
