Wall Street Journal changes headline referring to Czechs after criticism

The US news outlet The Wall Street Journal changed a headline on Sunday referring to Czechia as a “small ex-Soviet satellite state” after a wave of online criticism. The piece centred on a Czech plan to source ammunition for Ukraine, which it said made use of contacts from the previous era.

The news outlet later replaced the headline with one referring to Central Europe and naming the Czechs.

The US ambassador to Prague, Bijan Sabet, had earlier “corrected” the initial text on social media, writing instead that Czechia had been a democratic country for over 30 years and an important NATO ally.