PM Fiala: another million pieces of ammunition could be purchased for Ukraine

Thanks to the Czech shells-for-Ukraine initiative, 500,000 pieces of artillery ammunition have already been purchased and there is no reason why it couldn’t be another million within the next twelve months, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said at the Hudson Institute on Tuesday.

In his speech, in which he also talked about the Czechoslovak experience with communism, the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops led by the Soviet army in 1968, and the importance of NATO, the Czech Prime Minister highlighted the Czech assistance to Ukraine to date.

He described Czechia as capable and reliable ally with a developed defence industry and good business contacts around the world. He also recalled Czechoslovak arms supplies to the young Israeli state in 1948.

The Czech head of government concluded his speech by saying that without the United States, we couldn’t deal with the crises which we face today and which we will face in the future.