Czech President Pavel first head of state to visit east Ukraine since start of Russian aggression

Czech President Petr Pavel, who is on a visit to Ukraine, met with the regional governor Serhiy Lysak in the eastern city of Dnipro on Saturday to discuss Czech aid to the Dnipropetrovsk region.

According to the Czech head of state, Czechia has a number of projects ready to get underway in the near future. Mr. Pavel wrote on his Twitter account that the main goal now was to move from aid to cooperation.

The Czech president arrived in Ukraine on Friday together with the Slovak head of state Zuzana Čaputová and they held talks in Kyiv with their Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.