Czechia getting dryers from EC members and Ukraine in wake of devastating floods

Ukraine has provided the Czech Republic with a shipment of 40 dryers to help in the clean-up effort of the flooded regions, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on the X network on Sunday. According to the Czech foreign minister diplomats from the Consulate General in Lviv are transporting them to the Czech border from where they will be taken to the firefighters' warehouse in Hlučín.

The European Commission said on Friday that hundreds of dryers are being sent to Czechia, through the EU's civil protection system, by Slovenia, Belgium, Croatia and Germany.

EC President Von der Leyen said earlier this week that 10 billion euros would be made available from EU cohesion funds to Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Austria which all experienced severe flooding. Two billion euros should fall to the Czech Republic.