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Fierce storms are predicted to hit most of Czechia on Saturday evening and night, with strong winds, hail, and, in Moravia and Silesia, torrential rainfall. The only exception is the northwestern part of the country, which should escape the bad weather.

The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has issued a warning, to remain in force until 3 am on Sunday morning, that the storms may uproot trees and cause flooding, property damage, power outages and traffic jams. The institute recommends securing windows and doors and driving with caution.

Czechia could train as many as 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers on its territory this year, Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová said in an interview with the Czech News Agency. Unlike some countries which, according to media reports, are considering sending instructors to train soldiers directly in Ukraine as part of an approach initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron, Czechia does not plan to do the same, she said, given the geographical proximity of the military training area in Libavá near Olomouc to Ukraine itself.

In the same interview, she also said that more countries are continuing to express interest in the Czech munitions initiative for Ukraine, in addition to the 15 EU and NATO countries that have so far contributed over 1.6 billion euros, and that she expects the NATO summit in Washington in July to be dominated by the topics of member states' obligations towards the alliance, such as spending at least two percent of GDP on defence, as well as the upcoming US presidential election.

Forty hours after Wednesday night's fatal train collision in Pardubice, the train route through the city that connects Prague with Moravia resumed full operation on Friday evening. The remaining piece of debris still on the track waiting to be cleared up - the most badly damaged of the passenger carriages - was put to the side of the tracks on Friday and will be completely removed on Monday, a spokesperson for the Railway Administration's fire brigade said.

Only one railway track had been operating on the train route at a limited speed since Thursday morning following the accident, when an express passenger train crashed into a freight train at the newly built Pardubice-Centre station shortly before 11 pm, leaving four people dead and 27 injured. The remaining tracks reopened around an hour and a half earlier than the originally estimated time of 6 pm on Friday.

Saturday is expected to be sunny in the morning but some clouds may start to come in during the afternoon. The day should be mostly dry with a chance of rain towards the evening. Daytime temperatures are predicted to range between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius.